It's the latest snapshot of the growing burden of student debt and it's another discouraging one: Two-thirds of the national college class of 2011 finished school with loan debt, and those who borrowed walked off the graduation stage owing on average $26,600 - up about 5 percent from the class before....
Average Debt Up Again For New College Grads
By JUSTIN POPE, Associated Press
Thu, 10/18/2012 - 12:49am
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