Katie Hill Quotes

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I've erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.

I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.

As a first-generation college student who worked my way through community college on to Cornell Law, having health insurance was not a top priority when I was starting out. I was buried in student loan debt and worried about simply making ends meet.

Student debt is crushing the lives of millions of Americans. How does it happen that we can get a home mortgage or purchase a car with interest rates half of that being paid for student loans? We must make higher education affordable for all. We must substantially lower interest rates on student loans. This must be a national priority.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Frankly, it's depressing, each night sleeping in someone else's home. I miss having a roof to my name. Our situation isn't an 'All in the Family' cliche, but it's still easy to see reality in plain terms: I live with my in-laws, and I can't say when that will change.

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.

Sorry your job prospects are so grim, but we are still not ready to admit that Reganomics failed., You’ll never be able to retire, but that’s probably for the best., Even in your darkest moments someone will be there for you … probably a creditor coming after your student loan debts. You can achieve anything if you work hard … That’s just a joke I tell my unpaid interns., You lazy millenials will work twice as much for half the pay my generation enjoyed. My stock portfolio really appreciates it.