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#ThePitt star Patrick Ball is "really glad" he went public with how the show got him out of $80,000 worth of student loan debt: "This sense of financial burden from student loans is something that is carried by many, many people in this country, many of whom have it much worse than I did. I think the system is broken, and the fact that this has been able to start a conversation around that is awesome." wp.me/pc8uak-1lHbD2

Steve Kerr on his biggest concern about America Today “When I finished college almost forty years ago, if you went to school and got a degree, you could get a job and you could buy a house. Now that's out of reach for most people between student debt and home prices and the economy slanted toward the very, very top one per cent. We don't really have a middle class, and we don't have what used to represent the American Dream, which was: you can do better than your parents. We're going backward on all that. Our family is lucky. I'm in a position where my family can live well. But there are millions of people out there, young people who are looking at the horizon and saying, "I did everything I was told I needed to do, and I can't buy a house, and I can't chase my dream." Think about what that means for the stability of communities and cities and a whole country.” (Via @NewYorker h/t @warriorsworld )