Employers who recruit a lot of recent grads are luring them with a new perk: student loan repayment.
Bloomberg reports that investment and consulting firms like Nataxis and PricewaterhouseCoopers will pony up as much as $250 a month toward a candidate's college debt.
McKinsey, Bain Capital and Accenture will also pay down employees' student debt, according to The Wall Street Journal.
If you're willing to provide seed money, we can jump on the bandwagon and start up our own firm to compete with Accenture.
Indenture.
A pillar of colonial America, indenture (a version of "enforced servitude") underwrote the tobacco economy in the Chesapeake region.
Under the system, an Englishman who sought a clean start in America signed a contract that promised he'd repay his master for ship fare, clothing, and room and board by laboring for seven years.
Women also signed the contracts.
The word indenture refers to an indentation made on each contract. When it was drawn, two copies were made. One copy was then placed over the other and an edge indented.
As a result, master and servant could always spot whether a copy might be forged (often the end-date would be changed by one or the other party.)
On a serious note: Burdensome debt is no laughing matter. It drives in part the popularity of Bernie Sanders among Millennials. As one Boomer told a group of college students, “Your generation’s debt is our generation’s draft."
