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Do Americans prefer Harris’s or Trump’s student loan policy?

Comparing the candidates’ student loan policies President Biden has made student loan forgiveness one of his largest domestic policy priorities. In August 2022, he announced a plan to forgive about $430 billion of student loan debt for more than 40 million borrowers, but the Supreme Court blocked that plan in June 2023 for exceeding executive […]

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Student loans

President Biden’s student loan forgiveness

It helps to address equity issues among current borrowers, but does not address college affordability going forward, is more expensive than the White House has admitted, has a questionable legal basis, and is opposed by a narrow majority of Republicans On August 24, President Biden announced his intention to take executive action to cancel up […]

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