Student loan debt in America hit $1.47 trillion in 2018. Within that enormous number, four out of 10 students are saddled with college debt without ever having earned a degree. University of California, Berkeley professor David Kirp joins host Krys Boyd to talk about this source of economic hardship, which he writes about in “The College Dropout Scandal.”
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