RICHARDSON, Texas — Saidah Fletcher once thought she would never shake years of student debt. But just two years ago, she threw a party to celebrate paying it off. Her friends and family helped her tear paper copies of her loan statements to shreds.
“I brought them at the party and gave them out to everybody, and I said ‘rip em!’” Fletcher said with a laugh.
Fletcher’s excitement is understandable when you learn just how deep she was into those debts. The Richardson woman was paying for not one, but two stints in higher education…