"Nearly two-thirds of graduates of four-year colleges have student loans. And with college costs rising faster than inflation, the average cumulative debt for graduating seniors is approaching $20,000, more than double that of 14 years ago," the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. "In ways large and small, those loans are changing the way that this generation lives. Even in the best of circumstances - in which education does help land the job of the student's choice - the monthly payments are often accompanied by dread, anxiety and uncertainty."

You can read the complete February 12, 2008 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on-line.