Student Debt Cancellation Would Promote an Equitable Recovery without Increasing Inflation [rooseveltinstitute.org]
By Alí R. Bustamante, Photo: Unsplash, January 31, 2022 Decades of federal and state policy choices have placed the burden of financing colleges and universities on the backs of families instead of in the government’s hands, leading to today’s student debt crisis. Americans currently hold $1.7 trillion in student debt, with a disproportionate share of this debt falling on Black and brown families. Payments on student debt have been paused since the start of the pandemic, and President Biden...