Dealing with Massive Student Loan Debt

10am

The issue of student loan debt is about more than helping graduates out from beneath the burden, the country's record $1.2 trillion student loan debt load is hampering economic growth. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the average debt per borrower has increased by 70 percent just since 2004. This hour we consider  the student loans mess, what it costs taxpayers and how we can manage the challenge.

Guests

• Danielle Douglas, Washington Post financial reporter
• Joel Best, author of “The Student Loan Mess:  How Good Intentions Created a Trillion Dollar Problem’’
• Diane Stemper, Executive Director of Financial Aid at OSU