{"id":3103,"date":"2011-11-10T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T15:30:19","slug":"new-england-carries-some-of-the-countrys-heaviest-student-loan-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/10\/new-england-carries-some-of-the-countrys-heaviest-student-loan-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Carries Some Of The Country’s Heaviest Student Loan Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All over the country, young people are protesing against heavy student loan burdens. But it's worse in New England than in many other areas.<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently, we’ve been looking into student debt in New Hampshire.\u00a0 (You can read the initial posts here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)\u00a0 As the Project on Student Debt<\/a> reports, the Class of 2010 took on a record amount of loans–an average of $25,250 nationally.<\/p>\n

And the newly-graduated in New Hampshire took on the heaviest burden in the country, an average of $31,048.<\/p>\n

So how did the rest of New England stack up?<\/p>\n

Not so well, it seems.While New Hampshire ranks #1 in the nation for student debt among the Class of 2010, Maine’s not far behind, at #2.\u00a0 Only Massachusetts and Connecticut missed the Top 10…barely.<\/p>\n

You can see the nitty-gritties of New England student debt loads on the table below, which we created using data from the Project on Student Debt’s report “Student Debt and the Class of 2010<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Regional Student Debt*<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
State<\/td>\nAverage Debt<\/td>\nRank By Debt $<\/td>\n% With Debt<\/td>\nRank By % With Debt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Connecticut<\/td>\n$25,360<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n61%<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maine<\/td>\n$29,983<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n68%<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Massachusetts<\/td>\n$25,541<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n63%<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New Hampshire<\/td>\n$31,048<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n74%<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhode Island<\/td>\n$26,340<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n67%<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vermont<\/td>\n$28,391<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n66%<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

*Debt calculated only for four-year public schools and private non-profit four-year schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, we’ve been looking into student debt in New Hampshire.\u00a0 (You can read the initial posts here and here.)\u00a0 As the Project on Student Debt reports, the Class of 2010 took on a record amount of loans–an average of $25,250 nationally. And the newly-graduated in New Hampshire took on the heaviest burden in the country, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[120,493,525,85,117,545,118],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}