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Wow: You Know Things Are Bad When Yale's Suing Grads Over Student Loans

By Gregory B. Hladky

3:57 PM EST, February 6, 2013

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The crisis in student loan defaults must be horrific if Yale University is reduced to suing its graduates to get some of its money back.

Here's a Bloomberg story detailing the problems universities and colleges are facing when it comes to widespread failsures to repay student loans. According to the records, there were defaults on $964 million in federal Perkins loans in 2011 - an increase of more than 20 percent in five years.