The frustrating truth about who is excluded from college debt relief
By Zachary B. Wolf
(EXCERPT)
Indivar Dutta-Gupta of the Center for Law and Social Policy agrees that college affordability is a larger program that must be addressed. But he pushed back during our phone conversation when I said Biden’s program is focused on people who have degrees and earning potential.
“A lot of them don’t have degrees,” he said. “About 40% of people with student debt have no college degree. That’s one thing people don’t realize.”
There is overlap, he said, between people in poverty and people who have attended some college. His concern is that the income limit creates barriers to getting the help to people who may struggle to prove their income.
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Source URL: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/25/politics/means-testing-student-loan-forgiveness-what-matters/index.html
