How student loan servicers have a hold on your soul  The
nation's college loan bill stands at more than $1tn, with the
average college graduate leaving school $26,000 in debt  Are you
struggling to pay back student debt? Join our network Student
debt 460 Our not-good-enough-economy makes the bad student debt
situation, worse. Photograph: Getty Images  I'm waiting for
someone to record a new cover of the classic coal-miner dirge
Sixteen Tons – but, instead of having country singer Tennessee
Ford warbling the tune, let's update it for the millennial
generation. The new title: 26 Bills. Instead of coal mines and
the company store, we'd now sing along to a tune about banksters
and student loans:  St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to my student loan servicer.  As of this week, the
nation's college loan bill stands at more than $1tn. The average
college graduate with debt now leaves school $26,000 in hock,
which is more than a 50% increase since 2005, when Congress
stopped allowing students