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Podcast: The Journal.
Episode: Student-Loan Debt Is Strangling Gen X
Description: Gen X is barreling toward retirement with an excruciating student-loan burden. The generation that came of age in the β80s and β90s is now also the generation with the most student debt per borrower. WSJβs Oyin Adedoyin explains how federal policies around student debt left Gen X with such a big burden. And one Gen Xer talks about the impact student debt has had on his life. Jessica Mendoza hosts.Β
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