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PSLF has forgiven $90.6 billion for 1.2 million borrowers, and the headline number is real. So is the 88,000-application backlog. The gap between those 2 facts is where career plans go to die.
By Marcus Cole · 3 min read
Over 5.5 million Americans are already in default on $140 billion in federal student loans, with delinquency rates nearly triple pre-pandemic levels. The credit score destruction sweeping through millions of borrowers has a downstream address: consumer spending, mortgage origination, auto lending, and the regional banks exposed to all three.
By Ray Vega · 4 min read