Think from KERA

Student Debt Is Crushing Parents, Too


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Your child gets the exciting news they’ve been accepted into college. Now comes the scary part: How will you pay for it? Caitlin Zaloom, associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how college-minded parents are taking on enormous debts to fund higher education and why the middle-class is especially crunched. She’s the author of “Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost.”
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