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Rising student-debt load encumbers young, poor

Pew report: 19% of households saddled

Posted: September 27, 2012 at 5:05 a.m.

With college enrollment growing, student debt has stretched to a record number of U.S. households — nearly 1 in 5 — with the biggest burdens falling on the young and poor.

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