{"id":1621,"date":"2018-06-08T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T15:53:46","slug":"education-its-not-cheap-as-student-loan-debt-nears-a-trillion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/08\/education-its-not-cheap-as-student-loan-debt-nears-a-trillion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Education: It\u2019s not cheap, as student loan debt nears a trillion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Williams, President of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradwilliams.fixedincomecounsel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Brad Williams Financial Services<\/em><\/a> discusses with Kurt Schemers on Traders Nation\u00ae how student loan debt has skyrocketed to nearly a trillion dollars and that women hold the majority of that debt. Get the numbers of this phenomenon broken down and the reasons why.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, students and parents need to have a hard conversation to properly map out their education that can carry the student into a career future. Often, thousands of dollars are spent on classes that don\u2019t translate into a lifetime of employment ROI. Further, we touch on student loan interest rates, and the cost of \u201cfree\u201d education \u2013 is it really free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Williams, President of Brad Williams Financial Services discusses with Kurt Schemers on Traders Nation\u00ae how student loan debt has skyrocketed to nearly a trillion dollars and that women hold the majority of that debt. Get the numbers of this phenomenon broken down and the reasons why. Additionally, students and parents need to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[239,165,240],"class_list":{"0":"post-1621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-betterment","8":"tag-brad-williams","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-student-loan","11":"post_format-post-format-video"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tradersnation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}