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Nearly A THIRD Of America’s College Students Will Use Loans For Spring Break Trips This Year
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Eric Owens
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9:16 AM 03/09/2017
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Just over 30 percent of America’s college students with student loan debt admit that they plan to fritter away part of their federally-subsidized loan funds to pay for sun-and-beer-soaked spring break trips this year.

LendEDU, a student loan marketplace website, documented this startling fact in a nationwide survey of 500 students currently attending America’s colleges and universities.

The survey shows that 30.6 percent of debt-laden students say they are using student loan funds to pay for airfare and hotels, and to generally party hard on a super-fun vacation during their post-mid-term breaks.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/09/nearly-a-third-of-americas-college-students-will-use-loans-for-spring-break-trips-this-year/#ixzz4aqOtt0Zp

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And an even higher percentage will continue to use those loans for consumer goods, partying, drinking binges and almost anything else not remotely connected to their education.............well formal education, expenses. Just as students have done for decades.

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Startling fact only to someone who's never been a student.   :shrug:
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And an even higher percentage will continue to use those loans for consumer goods, partying, drinking binges and almost anything else not remotely connected to their education.............well formal education, expenses. Just as students have done for decades.

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Debt provides a good hard education on life. Best to learn it early...

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