The NAACP is pushing for elected officials to go beyond the new federal student loan debt forgiveness program to help minority students.
“Education, especially higher education, isn’t supposed to be the great equalizer. It’s supposed to be the path to the middle class,” said Jared Bass, senior director of higher education for the Center for American Progress.is an independent, nonpartisan policy institute. Bass said there are systematic hurdles facing minority students.
“The issue of how Black and brown individuals or students feel like they have to go to grad school in order to be able to earn as much or have the same economic potential as some of their white counterparts,” said Bass. There are already opponents to President Joe Biden’s current plan, which cancels up to $20,000. Most are Republicans who argue it will make inflation worse.“We can decrease the need for borrowers, Black and brown borrowers and white borrowers, to have to borrow in the first place,” said Bass.
Bass said another solution is increasing the Pell Grant, which also benefits a significant number of minority students.
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