When Danny Randle graduated from Clark Atlanta University five years ago, he had big dreams for his future, but he quickly learned that would not be as easy as he planned.
Randle started a graphic design company, but with $80,000 of student loan debt, goals like growing his business and buying his first home seem just as distant as when he was a student.
“We have all this debt for student loans, but when people are trying to start businesses and create generational wealth, they can’t because of their student loans, so I just feel like it was a scam,” he said. “I don’t feel like college was a scam, but I feel like the whole college student loan debt, I feel like it was all a plan that we all just fell into.”
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