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By: joe-taylor in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
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Wilful,


The only reason that my debt to income ratio was at 33% was because my degree got me a higher starting salary than I would have gotten without it.


Joe


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Re: Student loans
By: wilful
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Tue, 20 Aug 13 10:02 PM
Msg. 55318 of 65535

Hi Joe - Your student loan debt was 33% of your annual income. Today's graduates have 62% debt to income.

Check out this chart:

In total, American consumers owe:

$11.16 trillion in debt

A decrease of 1.6% from last year
$856.5 billion in credit card debt
$7.86 trillion in mortgages
$999.3 billion in student loans
An increase of 6.1% from last year

Who woulda thought that us Americans, who use our credit cards like drunken sailors - are actually slowing down on credit card purchases - while the students have become the new "drunken sailors".


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