If you haven’t already read Stephen Burd’s piece on predatory loans made by for-profit colleges in the current issue of the Washington Monthly, you should, post-haste. If you have, then you should read occasional College Guide blog contributor Pedro de la Torre’s blog post on the subject over at Funding our Future, which serves as a nice addendum.

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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.