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A report from the Brookings Institution shows that the share of students graduating with more than $50,000 in student debt has more than tripled since 2000, increasing from 5 percent of student borrowers in 2000 to 17 percent in 2014. This group now holds the majority of outstanding student debt owed to the government—about $790 billion of the $1.4 trillion total at the end of 2017, the report says. Moreover, these same borrowers are repaying their loans more slowly, if at all, the report states.