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Ivory Tower Debt Trap: Student Loans Distort the American Dream

The ROI on college is plunging. Colleges are failing to educate, and instead loading kids up with unshakable debt and failed ideas.
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Ivory Tower Debt Trap: Student Loans Distort the American Dream
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Hannah Frankman Hood
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In a TikTok video that went viral last month (newsworthy, I know), a barefaced young woman sits in her car, in the middle of what we Gen Zers call “a crash out.”
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Hannah Frankman Hood
Hannah Frankman Hood
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Hannah Frankman Hood is the founder of renegadeEducator. She grew up homeschooled and skipped college to go straight into the startup world, and has now been working in alternative education for almost 10 years. She was previously a program manager at Praxis, a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and an instructor at The Objective Standard institute.