{"id":65626,"date":"2017-09-06T17:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-debt-trap-how-the-student-loan-industry-betrays-young-americans\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:39:12","slug":"the-debt-trap-how-the-student-loan-industry-betrays-young-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-debt-trap-how-the-student-loan-industry-betrays-young-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"The debt trap: how the student loan industry betrays young Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nNavient, spun off from Sallie Mae, has thrived as student loan debt spirals across the US. Its story reveals how, instead of fighting inequality, the education industry is reinforcing itThis story is published in partnership with Fusion as part of Fusion TV\u2019s investigative documentary series The Naked TruthAmong the 44 million Americans who have amassed our nation\u2019s whopping $1.4tn in student loan debt, a call from Navient can produce shivers of dread.Navient is the primary point of contact, or the \u201cservicer\u201d, for more student loans in the United States than any other company, handling 12 million borrowers and $300bn in debt. The company flourished as student loan debt exploded under the Obama administration, and its stock rose sharply after the election of Donald Trump.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2017\/sep\/06\/us-student-debt-loans-navient-sallie-mae\" target=\"_blank\">The debt trap: how the student loan industry betrays young Americans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Navient, spun off from Sallie Mae, has thrived as student loan debt spirals across the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-h4u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15660,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/occupy-activists-abolish-3-85m-in-corinthian-colleges-students-loan-debt\/","url_meta":{"origin":65626,"position":0},"title":"Occupy activists abolish $3.85m in Corinthian Colleges students&#039; loan debt","date":"September 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Rolling Jubilee activist group buys student debt at knockdown price to inspire Americans to \u2018exert collective power\u2019US sues Corinthian Colleges for \u2018predatory lending\u2019Over the last few days, over 2,700 Everest College students woke up to find that someone had paid off their private student debt. 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