{"id":1133,"date":"2010-12-20T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2010-12-20T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T13:39:00","slug":"student-debt-now-surpasses-credit-card-debt-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2010\/12\/20\/student-debt-now-surpasses-credit-card-debt-in-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Student debt now surpasses credit card debt in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College student loan debt is continuing to rise, climbing an average 6  percent nationally in the last year, and now exceeds outstanding credit  card debt in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit  research institute, found the average loan balance for bachelor degree  recipients in 2009 was $24,000, according the newest data. Ohioans\u2019  average balance was $25,840, the 10th highest nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State University students\u2019 debt load almost matched the state average at $25,357.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wright State student loan debt almost matched the state average.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.journal-news.com\/news\/ohio-news\/student-debt-now-surpasses-credit-card-debt-in-u-s--1033266.html?cxtype=rss_ohio-news\" target=\"_self\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College student loan debt is continuing to rise, climbing an average 6 percent nationally in the last year, and now exceeds outstanding credit card debt in the U.S. The Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit research institute, found the average &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2010\/12\/20\/student-debt-now-surpasses-credit-card-debt-in-u-s\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}