Katrina Harris, a single mother in Oklahoma City, takes on contract jobs on the side to afford her student loan payments.

Raynee Howell’s story, “It’s Hard to Stay Afloat”: Oklahoma Borrowers Describe Life Under the New Student Loan System can be read here.

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