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Choose Your Own Adventure, Bankruptcy Edition!

August 28, 2008

You have just graduated from a good university with a law degree and a student debt of $100,000. Twenty-five percent (25%) of your debt is a government student loan, whole the remainder is comprised of various private loans and a line of credit. You have no assets aside from your personal effects and small emergency [...]

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Tackling Student Debt

August 11, 2008

Many personal finance bloggers will tell you that the best solution to student debt is to avoid it altogether. Good advice, but hardly realistic for many of us. If you lack family wealth or full scholarships, the only way to fully avoid educational debt may be to forego education. Working your way through school is [...]

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