{"id":84777,"date":"2026-02-12T07:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84777"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:32:59","slug":"its-a-scandal-government-called-loan-sharks-over-student-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/its-a-scandal-government-called-loan-sharks-over-student-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s a scandal\u2019: Government called \u2018loan sharks\u2019 over student loans"},"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\/AA1W9zhr.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=357&amp;y=304&amp;s=153&amp;d=153\" alt=\"NUS president Amira Campbell said student loans were a 'scandal' that the country had 'sleepwalked into' (The Independent)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/graduates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">graduates<\/a>\u00a0dressed as sharks said they were \u201cdrowning\u201d under the weight of their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/student-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">student debt<\/a>, accusing the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">government<\/a> of acting like \u201cloan sharks\u201d as they protested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/it-s-a-scandal-government-called-loan-sharks-over-student-loans\/ar-AA1W9ucj?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=62977e48f4a649009d7ad3b81ddccfb4&amp;ei=26\">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>A group of\u00a0graduates\u00a0dressed as sharks said they were \u201cdrowning\u201d under the weight of their\u00a0student debt, accusing the\u00a0government of acting like \u201cloan sharks\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/loan-sharks.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84777","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=84777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84779,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84777\/revisions\/84779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}