We Have To Do Something About the Black Student Debt Crisis: Center for Responsible Lending

By Reggie Wade, Yahoo Finance

According to the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), 70% of the people who graduated from college in 2016 have student loan debt with an average of $30,000 — and the problem gets worse for communities of color, says Ashley Harrington, federal advocacy director at the Center for Responsible Lending. 

“We definitely think we have to do something about this crisis,” Harrington told Yahoo Finance’s YFi PM. 

She notes that within communities of color, the black student debt crisis is a significant problem.

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