Crushing Debt and Credit Scores: What Millennials Need to Do to Fix their Futures

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This article was written by Joe Bayen, CEO of Lenny.

Remember those carefree college days, when your biggest worry was scraping together the funds for a frat-house kegger, or the stress of an all-nighter to make that big deadline? Perhaps it doesn’t seem so long ago, the freedom of campus life, the wild parties, and as time went on, the looming prospect of the real world. Just years later, most graduates feel the pinch of student days gone by — and many are experiencing reeling debt and dwindling credit scores.

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