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kurthr on June 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The student loan crisis is really an underemployme...

I don't think US population increased 14% in the last 15 years (even the world is barely 16%).

sansnomme on June 18, 2019 [–]

But people out of poverty and into middle class around the world has.

kurthr on June 19, 2019 | [–]

I don't think that happened in the US, and I don't think they immigrated so it's not really an effect on US colleges.

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