College graduates.
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- A new Gallup and Lumina Foundation report delved into the impact of college costs on adults' lives.
- It found that student-loan borrowers often delay key milestones, like having kids, because of the debt.
- Even borrowers with balances smaller than $10,000 have pushed off life events.
Many student-loan borrowers—even those with relatively small balances — can't progress in life because their debt is holding them back.