Professor who backed Warren's debt cancellation plan appointed for Education Department role

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : The Project on Predatory Student Lending, part of the Legal Service Center at Harvard Law School, has represented over a million borrowers since its founding in 2016 and helped secure the cancellation of more than $2 billion in student loan debt provided for institutions that use "deceptive and relentless sales tactics to recruit students," according to its website.
45% : The three told Warren that her plan to cancel up to $50,000 in student debt for individual borrowers, which Warren initially proposed as a Democratic presidential candidate and has since reintroduced, provides for "a lawful and permissible use of the authority Congress has conferred on the Secretary of Education."
44% : A Harvard law professor who said the education secretary has legal authority to forgive $50,000 in student debt per person as Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed was appointed to serve in the Department of Education's legal division.
34% : Warren and other Senate Democrats have continued to pressure Biden to take action on student debt as the administration's policy efforts have favored other issues.

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