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Sacrifices young adults are making to pay off student debt

Posted at 3:28 PM, Sep 06, 2019
and last updated 2019-09-06 19:07:04-04

Today, one-third of people under 30 have student debt.

The Pew Research Center says those people are 11 percent more likely to struggle financially than people who graduated college without debt.

Chris Stewart met with a young woman, Lauren McCabe, who says she's buried in student debt and will spend the next 15 years digging herself out of it.

Watch the interview to learn more about McCabe’s story and her advice to students entering college.