
The challenge of US student debt
Student debt in the United States causes real financial pain for millions of borrowers.
Student debt in the United States causes real financial pain for millions of borrowers. We hear the personal stories of some Americans affected by significant student loans, and get wider context from Natalia Abrams, executive director of the Los Angeles campaign group Student Debt Crisis, and Ben Miller, education expert at the Washington research group, the Center for American Progress. Also in the programme, Burger King has struck a deal with the Silicon Valley company Impossible Foods, to market a vegetarian burger which is said to be difficult to distinguish from real meat. We hear more from Jessica Glenza, US health reporter for UK newspaper The Guardian, in New York. Plus our reporter at an event for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in London explains why the music industry is celebrating an increase of more than a third in the amount earned from music streaming in the past year.
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