{"id":46261,"date":"2014-10-08T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_student_borrowing_increases_among_affluent_in_u-s-_study_shows\/"},"modified":"2014-10-08T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:14:21","slug":"bloomberg_student_borrowing_increases_among_affluent_in_u-s-_study_shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46261","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Student Borrowing Increases Among Affluent in U.S., Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from affluent families are taking out loans for college at twice the rate of two decades ago, the fasting-growing borrower\u2019s group.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty percent of graduates in the class of 2012 whose parents had incomes of more than $125,700 left college with loans, up from 24 percent about 20 years earlier, according to a study released today by the Pew Research Center. For graduates whose parental income was below $44,000, the rate rose to 77 percent from 67 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAcross the spectrum, student debt has become an important way to pay for college and even graduates from well-off families rely on debt,\u201d\u009d Richard Fry, an economist and primary author of the study, said in an e-mail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-07\/student-borrowing-increases-among-affluent-in-u-s-study-shows.html?hootPostID=b329ed038bda6825eafb3e6908ff5b43\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from affluent families are taking out loans for college at twice the rate of two decades ago, the fasting-growing borrower\u2019s group. Fifty percent of graduates in the class of 2012 whose parents had incomes of more than $125,700 left<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46261\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,149,111,168,98,593,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}