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Student Loan Sinkhole?

Student Loan Sinkhole?

NOW follows the story of a single mother in Baltimore trying to dig herself out of a $70,000 student loan debt. While issues of personal responsibility are debated, there's no question the high price of higher education is creating an ocean of student loan debt for people who can least afford it -- and yet another frustrating complication for America's economic recovery.

Season 5 Episode 25 Length 25:40 Premiere: 06/18/09

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Season 5 Episodes

The Marines Are Landing

S5 E50 Length 25:08 Premiere Date 12/11/09

Climate Crisis

S5 E48 Length 21:38 Premiere Date 11/27/09

Who's Helping Our Wounded Vets?

S5 E47 Length 25:37 Premiere Date 11/19/09

Elizabeth Warren on the Economy

S5 E46 Length 24:16 Premiere Date 11/12/09

David Sirota On The 2009 Election

S5 E45 Length 24:04 Premiere Date 11/05/09

Electric Car Dreams

S5 E44 Length 23:50 Premiere Date 10/29/09

Water World

S5 E43 Length 25:35 Premiere Date 10/22/09

Nurses Needed

S5 E42 Length 23:49 Premiere Date 10/15/09

Life Panel? Death Panel?

S5 E41 Length 25:37 Premiere Date 10/08/09

Pre-existing Conditions

S5 E39 Length 23:03 Premiere Date 09/25/09

Surrogacy: Wombs for Rent?

S5 E38 Length 24:04 Premiere Date 09/18/09

Africa: House Calls and Health Care

S5 E37 Length 23:48 Premiere Date 09/10/09

After Guantanamo

S5 E36 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 09/03/09

Keep on Trucking?

S5 E35 Premiere Date 08/27/09

Gambling With Health Care

S5 E33 Length 25:17 Premiere Date 08/13/09

Power Struggle

S5 E32 Length 22:58 Premiere Date 08/06/09

Fighting Child Prostitution

S5 E31 Length 22:59 Premiere Date 07/30/09

Wall Street Reform and You

S5 E30 Length 25:34 Premiere Date 07/23/09

Inside Israel's Army

S5 E29 Length 25:36 Premiere Date 07/16/09

Peace and Prosperity in the West Bank?

S5 E28 Length 25:23 Premiere Date 07/09/09

Obama's Border Fence

S5 E27 Length 11:54 Premiere Date 07/02/09

Homes for the Homeless?

S5 E26 Length 25:36 Premiere Date 06/25/09

Student Loan Sinkhole?

S5 E25 Length 25:40 Premiere Date 06/18/09

Abortion Providers Under Siege

S5 E24 Length 25:38 Premiere Date 06/11/09

Food, Inc.

S5 E23 Length 24:10 Premiere Date 06/04/09

Green Jobs: Hope or Hype?

S5 E22 Length 24:10 Premiere Date 05/21/09

Rehab for Terrorists?

S5 E21 Length 26:36 Premiere Date 05/21/09

Can the U.N. Keep the Peace?

S5 E20 Length 26:46 Premiere Date 05/14/09

Predicting Pandemics

S5 E19 Length 26:46 Premiere Date 05/07/09

A Radical Fix for Schools?

S5 E18 Length 26:46 Premiere Date 04/30/09

Justice Delayed

S5 E17 Length 23:04 Premiere Date 04/23/09

On Thin Ice

S5 E16 Length 56:46 Premiere Date 04/16/09

Help for the Homeowners?

S5 E6 Length 25:32 Premiere Date 02/06/09

Specials

Ocean Tipping Point?

Length 13:40 Premiere Date 07/02/09