The Crushing Burden of College Debt

Steve Wood with Dr. Alan Carlson

College debt is a major concern in today’s economic turmoil. Students graduating with enormous debt loads are finding it necessary to delay plans for their vocation, for family life, and even career, in order to pay down a crushing burden that consumes their lives.

In this important interview, Steve Wood talks with Dr. Alan Carlson, President of The Howard Center and Director of The Family in America Studies Center, on the effects of debt on families and college students. Dr. Carlson shares sage advice for how parents and students can avoid disastrous debt decisions that will plague them for decades to come.