Which will be greater: The burden of student debt on Americans who went off this fall to their first year of college, or the amount of federal debt per full-time private-sector worker when these students earn their degrees and start looking for jobs?

There is no doubt: It will be the amount of federal debt per full-time private-sector worker.

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