Student-Loan Debt Is Strangling Gen X
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19 min
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Generation X borrowers carry the highest average student debt per person, with many facing $300,000+ balances approaching retirement age.
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Chiropractor Rick Bettencourt reveals he owes $306,000 in student debt at age 55 and expects to die with loans unpaid.
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