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The median student loan debt is inching towards the median starting income for college graduates, something that massively sets people back in their ability to move forward in their life and do things such as purchase a home. Add on to the fact that job growth has concentrated into a few cities that are rapidly becoming more expensive and you have what we have today.

If wage growth matched productivity gains, a lot of these problems would be non issues. Nothing in here has anything to do with entitlement.




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