Education Department to forgive $1.1B in loans for ITT Tech students | Gephardt Daily

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Earlier this month, Cardona announced the department would automatically discharge $5.8 billion in student loans for more than 323,000 borrowers who have total and permanent disabilities.
49% : The department said it would instead implement a more "streamlined approach" which it estimated will eliminate about $1 billion in student loan debt from about 72,000 students, many of whom attended ITT and Corinthian Colleges.
46% : The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday announced plans to cancel $1.1 billion in student debt for 115,000 borrowers who attended ITT Technical Institute.
44% : Biden has requested that the Education Department and the U.S. Department of Justice review his legal authority to forgive student debt through executive action but the results of that review have not been made public.
27% : President Joe Biden and his administration, however, have still faced pressure to further cancel $50,000 per borrower in student debt for all.

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