Occupy Vegas Protester: ‘Slave to Student Loan Debt’
For one woman occupying Las Vegas, massive student loan-debt from a for-profit “diploma mill” has become an agonizing burden.
Think Progress interviewed the woman at the Occupy Las Vegas movement, where more than 200 demonstrators showed up late last week to march down the Vegas strip.
She says:
I went to a for-profit diploma mill back in 2005. I currently owe $40,000. I’ve been paying for the last several years. I’ve paid a total of $20,000 but my student loan still sits at $40,000 because sometimes $500 a month goes to the interest and not the principle. A lot of students I know default on their student loans; I can’t. My mom co-signed on my student loans and she has disability and I can’t have her getting involved, you know.
Watch the full video, with her remarks at 2:50:
Brian Stewart is the journalism and online communications manager at Campus Progress.
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