Degrees of debt

This fall, the Cap Times is examining and explaining the student loan debt issue in a series of stories and a six-part podcast … looking at what lawmakers in Wisconsin and in Washington, D.C., are saying about it, how and why debt and tuition have increased so rapidly and how student debt has become the single largest asset on the federal government’s balance sheet, making the U.S. Department of Education equivalent to the fifth largest bank in the country.