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

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.