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[Paula Wethington]

If you are a current college student or a recent graduate or parent of such a student, we want to hear from you and include your family’s experiences in our news coverage.

Evening News reporter Paula Wethington is working on a special report on student debt.

The topics will include why today’s col­lege students got caught in a perfect storm of bad financial circumstances, what it will take for them to pay down high loan bal­ances, and what can be done to lessen the debt burden for future students.

Contact Ms. Wethington at 240-5745 or at paula@monroenews.com.

Note from Paula: this is going to be an interesting discussion. I just started posting reader queries today and I am already getting replies.

[Paula Wethington]

The student debt report was published in our print edition Sunday Aug. 12.

Here are the links on monroenews.com:
Intro: http://www.monroenews.com/news/2012/aug/12/student-loan-debt-crisis-hits-home-monroe-county/
Main piece: http://www.monroenews.com/news/2012/aug/12/dealing-debt/

If you want to read it with just one link, here's the post on Monroe on a Budget:
http://www.blogsmonroe.com/budget/2012/08/special-report-student-loan-crisis-hits-home-in-monroe-county-mi/