Question of the day: what percentage of borrowers who currently have a payment on their student loans is behind payments?

The debts of students count, but who is short of payments?

Answer: 24%, almost 1 in 4 borrowers

To ask:

• Why do you think so many people have difficulty paying back their student loans, even after graduating?
• Do you think having student loans changes the choices that young people make, such as which jobs they hire or when they buy a house?
• If you were in charge, how would you balance the costs of the university between students, families and the government?

Click here for the ready-to-go slides for this question of the day you can use in your class.

Behind the numbers ((The Fed):

“At the end of the first quarter, more than twenty million federal borrowers were not repaid and five million federal borrowers had a monthly payment of zero dollars. In the following set of bars we show the borrowers from the borrower after the removal of borrowers without a payment (thereby due borrowers (23.7. Percentage) lag behind behind on their studies).”

About the author

Dave Martin

Dave joins NGPF with 15 years of educational experience in mathematics and computer science. After he participated in the New York City Teaching Fellows program and obtaining a master’s degree in education at Pace University, his career in education brought him to New York, New Jersey and a summer in the north of Ghana. Dave is firmly convinced that financial literacy is of vital importance for creating well -completed students who are prepared for a complex and very competitive world. During which free time will two young daughters allow, Dave enjoys video games, dungeons and dragons, cooking, gardening and naps.

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