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Family Finances

The Federal Government Should Cancel at Least $30,000 of Your Student Loans

The move would help 43 million people focus on their futures, and put us on track to pursue an equitable economic recovery.

BY Katherine Lucas McKay & 1 more

Blog Post

01.26.2022
Family Finances

Student Loan Debt is Growing the Racial Wealth Gap and How Philanthropy Can Help

The problems that emerge from carrying student loan debt are systemic and have consequences not only for borrowers and their households, but also their communities, their states, and the nation’s economy. But these problems are solvable.

BY Karen Biddle Andres & 2 more

Publication

01.28.2021
Family Finances

Student Loan Debt: Is Cancellation What Our Economy Needs?

More than 40 million Americans have outstanding student loan balances – totaling over $1.5 trillion. The CARE ...

BY Financial Security Program

Video

05.20.2020
Family Finances

How States Can Solve the Student Debt Crisis

Student debt balances are ballooning, posing a serious threat to the financial security of millions of borrowers across the country. In the last 15 years, ...

BY Financial Security Program & 2 more

Publication

03.23.2020
Family Finances

Solving the Student Debt Crisis

For people across the United States, student loan debt is a growing portion of the household balance sheet. More than 40 million Americans have outstanding ...

BY Financial Security Program & 2 more

Publication

03.23.2020
Family Finances

Understanding the student debt crisis

October 15, 2019 Aspen FSP program manager Katherine Lucas McKay joins Matt Yglesias of Vox's "the Weeds" podcast to discuss the origins and consequences of America's ballooning student loan debt.

BY Katherine Lucas McKay & 1 more

Of Interest

10.18.2019
Colleges and Universities

Toward a College-Debt-Free Society

This spring, the Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC), an initiative of the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program, released a study on ways to help those with student loan debt to eliminate some portion of their federal student loans.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

10.09.2019
Colleges and Universities

A Degree by Any Other Name

Education technology company Chegg and the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program recently hosted a webinar and gave a frank assessment of where we are and what some companies are doing to alleviate the problem for their employees.

BY David K. Gibson

Blog Post

10.09.2019
Family Finances

Student Loan Cancellation Report

Federal policy reforms to forgive or cancel outstanding student loan debt have become a hot topic of debate among advocates, researchers, and policymakers ...

BY Katherine Lucas McKay & 2 more

Publication

04.23.2019
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