Facing Student-Loan Debt Fears, Americans—and Their Communities—Turn to Crowdfunding

KEY TAKEAWAYS Nearly 40,000 individuals and organizations received support for tuition costs and repayment from GoFundMe fundraisers in 2024, the fundraising platform said. People have turned to crowdfunding as some federal student loan borrowers say their education wasn’t worth the burden that their debt causes them. While many fundraisers were started by the people with…