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#WTF How Do Senior Citizens Still Have $36 Billion In Student Loan Debt?!

I thought old people were supposed to be free of burdens, enjoying a nice game of shuffleboard and a 4 p.m. steak dinner at Sizzler. But research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that the country’s outstanding student loan balance is about $870 billion, and seniors still owe about 5.3 percent of…

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