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Financial advisers help clients graduate from student debt

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Around the country, advisers are helping millennials and others tackle their student loan debt, which is now the top source of debt for Americans other than home mortgages.

Kirsten Buccigrossi graduated in 2010 with $32,000 in student debt spread out over 13 loans. When she tried to lease a car five years later, she discovered the number of loans was hurting her credit score.

Ms. Buccigrossi, a sales and marketing administrator for a yacht company in Michigan, earns a

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