The College Board reports that a “moderate” college budget for an in-state public college for the 2015–2016 academic year averaged $24,061. The result has been crippling student debt and, as some would say, a crisis of common sense. The U.S. Department of Education puts the national average for student loan debt at $29,400. A Citizens Bank survey found that average student debt for millennials is much higher — roughly $41,286. Prom tickets, clothes, limo, photos; senior breakfast, senior dinner, senior class gift to the school, senior yearbook, senior pictures, senior field trip, senior beach party, senior grad night programming.

Source: Huffington Post September 13, 2016 17:37 UTC