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Shopper's Market: Student Loans 101

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    Quick course in dealing with debt

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-- -- -- Are -- -- you the exact message of the -- Wall Street protesters is -- at best.

But according -- at least one report.

Nine out of ten of them want student loans -- get it.

One online petition has nearly half a million signatures.

College Board says the average student loan debt is 25000.

Dollars after four years of college it's not likely lenders will completely forgive student loans.

If if -- dividend to get all.

But there are steps you can take to ease that burden.

Mary Pilon as a money correspondent for the Wall Street Journal she says don't ignore your lender give a call renegotiate.

Even if it's not making your full monthly payment have.

Yes up prolongs the life of your loan but doing something -- that conversation can be very very helpful.

If you have a loan from the federal government there are several programs -- help is zap your debt the government's expanded its income based repayment programs this is a response the fact that -- monthly payments were so high relative to what their monthly earnings -- And if you work in public service or an -- about a and a medical profession sometimes these deals can even sweeter and a lot of people I know where these programs is a relatively him.

Also have some discipline we -- futures school acceptance letter to a prestigious private school shouldn't elicit an automatic yes.

Before reviewing your -- If there is a silver lining says.

You're seeing more students being aggressive about what am I gonna get out of that's what -- the internship programs might really getting the biggest bank my -- kind of been a class I mean here focus as opposed to just kind of doing it without thinking I think the strategy.

That's is very -- In New York.

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