Millennials know what they'd do if they didn't have to pay their student loans: Pay off everything else

That's money that could be spent elsewhere — like paying off other forms of debt. A new survey from Insider and Morning Consult found that 30% of millennials with student-loan debt said that if they weren't paying off college, they'd use the money to pay down other debt.

The survey polled 2,096 Americans about their financial health, debt, and earnings for a new series, "The State of Our Money." More than 670 respondents were millennials, defined as ages 23 to 38 in 2019. Nearly 40% of those millennial respondents have...