{"id":83696,"date":"2026-01-18T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83696"},"modified":"2026-01-18T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T15:39:42","slug":"scandalous-student-debts-are-crushing-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/18\/scandalous-student-debts-are-crushing-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandalous student debts are crushing the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UrVJx.img?w=534&amp;h=334&amp;m=6&amp;x=903&amp;y=173&amp;s=180&amp;d=180\" alt=\"Luke Charters has called England\u2019s student loans \u201ca mis-selling scandal\u201d - House of Commons\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tom nearly did not become a doctor. He had always wanted to go to medical school, but when he was 17, his mock A-level results fell short.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/scandalous-student-debts-are-crushing-the-economy\/ar-AA1UrJAo?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=cf8f8aee3737458f82a3501417b6dd0f&amp;ei=23\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Tom nearly did not become a doctor. He had always wanted to go to medical school, but when he was 17, his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Rachel-Reeve-Budget.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83697,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83696\/revisions\/83697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}