{"id":1817,"date":"2016-08-12T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:52:56","slug":"student-loans-fuel-wealth-gap-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/student-loans-fuel-wealth-gap-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDENT LOANS FUEL WEALTH GAP &#8211; part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One important factor is home ownership.\u00a0 Nearly 80% of those over 65 own their homes, as compared to 34% of under 35 year olds.\u00a0 YOUNG FOLKS HAVE IT BAD.\u00a0 Student loan debt is one reason.\u00a0 7l% of graduates are paying back those loans BEFORE buying a house &#8211; hopefully in 5 years.\u00a0 Student loans are charged 7 to 12% interest and rest of borrowing is at a lower interest rate.\u00a0 There needs to be a way to refinance student loans.\u00a0 National Association of Realtors is backing this in Congress to close this gap and make buying a home more reachable for younger folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One important factor is home ownership.\u00a0 Nearly 80% of those over 65 own their homes, as compared to 34% of under 35 year olds.\u00a0 YOUNG FOLKS HAVE IT BAD.\u00a0 Student loan debt is one reason.\u00a0 7l% of graduates are paying back those loans BEFORE buying a house &#8211; hopefully in 5 years.\u00a0 Student loans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}