My Student Loan Debt Crushed My Family (no photo, no camera)
I attended graduate school at The University of Virginia from 1985-87 and took out $10,000 then I continued graduate work at the University of Houston with a fellowship for five years and took another 10,000 I started paying back the debt in 1991 and I am still over 23,000 in debt. I have worked continually as an “adjunct” at many Universities without any health insurance. After the birth of my daughter I became chronically sick with Crohn’s Disease—no health insurance from a job, a big education and student loan debt. I have paid and paid and paid but because of interest rates and very large medical bills I have never made a dent. So now after 20 years of paying I owe more than I took out. My family gone without basics, I have gone without medical treatment in order to pay that student loan payment. I can’t afford to buy little toys like a camera—so hence there is no photo.
B. Newmark, Columbus, Ohio
