Here's Your Crisis Summary

In Chris Lewis and Layla Zaidane’s Here’s Your Crisis: Student Loan Debt Isn’t a Myth, it is argued that student debt in America is a problem. By the time I graduate college I will be 20 thousand dollars in debt.
One of the major problems Lewis and Zaidane’s argue in their piece is that fifty-three percent of graduates are unemployed (587). People are attending college, accumulating debt, and are not able to start careers. Recently, a student graduated with a degree in marketing and because of low unemployment rate he had to work as a bartender. More people will have degrees than jobs in the next ten years.
“Nearly half of the people 18-34 without degrees (48%) cannot afford to go to college” (587). High school kids who are wealthier tend

to better on the ACT, while, only 44 percent from those low-income family go on to attend college (588). Some people are so afraid of student loans it prevents them from even stepping foot on a college campus. An example of this is when my sister was going to college while working two jobs and still could not pay for tuition.
The cost of the public university has more than doubled since 1988 (587). Because of the weak job market people that have taken out loans are struggling to pay them back. This has led to an increase in student loan delinquencies that rose 27 percent between 2007 and 2017 (587).
This proves the argument that there is a student loan crisis in America. Lewis and Zaidane prove us that throughout their article.