It’s probably not such a bad thing that, in recent years, it has become much more expensive to get a law degree here in the U.S., at least based on the graduate school debt levels reported in this Wall Street Journal story the other day in the graphic below, but the idea that some of that law school debt may end up being forgiven is somewhat troubling.
Based on the WSJ story, there has recently been a sharp increase in college loans that have built-in maximum payment/long-term forgiveness features and these now account for almost 10 percent of the nation’s $1+ trillion in outstanding student loans.
Also see this commentary on the subject by Megan McCardle at Bloomberg.
