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October 06, 2009 3:38 PM Knowing Thy Options

By Jesse Singal

Given how much student debt pain can be averted simply by knowing the full range of one’s options, it’s good that an organization in West Virginia started a site to help students in that state traverse the daunting financial aid process. We need a lot more such sites for the rest of the country, however.

Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.