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How educational debt reshapes traditional markers of adulthood and success

My mom keeps asking why I do not buy a house like my friends but she does not understand that my student loans are bigger than most people's mortgages.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cost of social mobility can paradoxically delay or prevent the achievement of middle-class milestones.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

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