Opinion | Biden's Student Loan Plan Has Issues

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Since 2006, graduate students have been eligible for Grad PLUS loans, which supplement other types of student loans, enabling many grad students to borrow the entire cost of their studies.
57% : The department responded that it got the "biggest increase in a decade" in Pell grants, wants to double the maximum award and is fighting for free community college.
54% : At many large for-profit schools, Looney wrote, 30 to 75 percent of student loans are returned to students in cash to cover things like living expenses.
45% : "If we had a bigger Pell grant, many more people would not have student debt in the first place," Looney said.
41% : Biden's plan is less generous to graduate programs, which soak up a lot of student loans.
39% : There's a conundrum in President Biden's relief plan for student loan debt.

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