College bankruptcy rate will skyrocket

College bankruptcy rate will skyrocket | We've seen in fact uh the bankruptcy rate in colleges uh start to skyrocket right because who wants to get that much of a you know debt and like you said the majority the highest the the group with the highest unemployment rate is college graduates.

We've seen in fact uh the bankruptcy rate in colleges uh start to skyrocket right because who wants to get that much of a you know debt and like you said the majority the highest the the group with the highest unemployment rate is college graduates.

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