‘I feel stuck’: Inside the growing US student debt crisis

Americans owe just less than $1.75 trillion in student loan debt, an increase from $481bn in 2006, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis [File: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images]

New York, US – Dara Zucker says she’s stuck. The 28-year-old has been making monthly payments on her student loans since she graduated with a degree in psychology from Kenosha, Wisconsin’s Carthage College in 2016, but her balance has only gone up.

“I feel stuck in my life,” she told Al Jazeera, about the $39,000 she still owes on her $35,000 loan.