Forty-two million people in the United States owe $1.3 trillion in student debt, according to a recent report from in conjunction with the Center for Investigative Reporting.
In 2014 in North Carolina, 61 percent of students graduating from public and private four-year institutions graduated with loans amounting to an average of $25,000 per individual, according to . The privatization of Sallie Mae and the continued disinvestment in public higher education at the state level contribute to the problem.
Host Frank Stasio talks with senior reporter , co-author of the report 鈥�.鈥� He is also joined by Ashley Dale, a 51-year-old Raleigh software operator with a student loan balance of $78,000.
