Like many of the protesters at Occupy Wall Street in New York. Amanda Vodola is young, underemployed and loaded with student debt. She spends her days running around, helping __67__the movement, and her evenings waiting tables at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Last spring, she graduated from. Fordham University__68__a degree in English. "I grew up with this narrative that to get a good job I need to go to school," she says. But the job she has "is not enough to pay the bills."And the bills she’s __69__most about are the ones tied to that narrative: the$30 000 she__70__in college loans. In November, when their six-month grace period run __71__,Vodola and millions of other students who graduated in May have to start__72__their loans Repayment requirements for private loans kick in regardless of whether__73__have found jobs. Since employment rates for recent college graduates have_74__in the past two years. as have starting salaries, the__75__of a sharp rise in student-loan delinquencies(到期未付)has led some economists to__76__that this could be the next financial crisis, rippling(波及)into the wider economy. Total US student-loan debt, which exceeded credit-card debt__77__the first time last year. is on track to__78__$1 000 billion this year. That’s a nearly 8%__79__over last year. But neither these 80 nor the voices of students. __81__by debt, at protests in cities and on campuses__82__the nation are likely to keep the families of high school seniorses__83__seeing a brand-name education as a __84__to a better life. They’ve long been told that higher education is an __85__in the future--even as the costs of college has__86__538% over the past 30 years.
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