{"id":1510,"date":"2017-10-12T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2017-10-12T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:43:28","slug":"what-would-you-do-for-student-loan-forgiveness-new-poll-shows-debt-worries-loom-large-for-millennials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/10\/12\/what-would-you-do-for-student-loan-forgiveness-new-poll-shows-debt-worries-loom-large-for-millennials\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would You Do for Student Loan Forgiveness? New Poll Shows Debt Worries Loom Large for Millennials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1512\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1512\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/studentdebtcut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/studentdebtcut.jpg 617w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/studentdebtcut-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nearly half of all respondents in a recent poll said they would give up voting in the next two presidential elections if their student loans would be forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>And while surrendering a fundamental right might seem crazy, the latest numbers on student loan debt are equally staggering.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/ticas.org\/posd\/home\">The Institute for College Access and Success<\/a>, \u201caverage student debt at graduation in 2016 ranged from $20,000 in Utah to $36,350 in New Hampshire, and new graduates\u2019 likelihood of having debt ranged from 43 percent in Utah to 77 percent in West Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.credible.com\/blog\/survey-millennials-student-loan-debt-forgiveness\/\">Credible survey,<\/a> conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/pollfish.com\/\">Pollfish<\/a>, asked 500 people between the ages of 18 and 34 what they would be willing to do to free themselves of student loan debt.<\/p>\n<p>While giving up the right to vote was the most popular answer, 43.6 percent of respondents said they would rather never be able to use a ride-sharing app again versus having student loan debt. Another 42.4 percent said they would give up traveling outside of the country for five years if it meant being debt-free, and 27 percent said they would even live with mom and dad at home in exchange for student loan forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The option respondents were least willing to do? Give up texting for a year.<\/p>\n<p>Only 13.2 percent of respondents said they would be willing to go without texting for a year in exchange for student loan forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/09\/29\/millennials-would-give-up-this-right-to-wipe-out-their-student-loans.html\">full survey here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:adobson@nacacnet.org\">adobson@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of all respondents in a recent poll said they would give up voting in the next two presidential elections if their student loans would be forgiven. And while surrendering a fundamental right might seem crazy, the latest numbers on student loan debt are equally staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-college"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-om","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}