According to data from the Federal Reserve, the total amount of student debt in the United States is now $1.5 trillion. As SovereignMan.com’s Simon Black notes, that’s more than the estimated $1.3 trillion in direct costs that the government spent fighting the War in Iraq.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-28/total-student-debt-america-now-exceeds-cost-iraq-war