The amount of accruing student debt is incredibly distressing. John Oliver has produced this excellent expose on the debt, the politics and the long trail of victims.
Thousands of students are running up enormous debt, especially at for-profit colleges. Thanks to the lobbying efforts of educational institutions, student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy regardless of how bad the track record of the institution for actually placing students into jobs in their fields of education.
The marketing strategies of for-profits are especially reprehensible.
Excellent job of exposing this dysfunction and fraud. Once again, we rely on comedians to do the best journalism.