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Student loan debt is costing recent grads much more than just money

  • Written by Kate Padgett Walsh, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University
imageRecent college graduates owed an average of nearly $30,000 in student loans in 2019.lightspeedshutter/iStock via Getty Images Plus

President Joe Biden promised to forgive up to US$10,000 in student loan debt during his 2020 campaign. Now, a few months into his presidency, over 415 organizations have urged him to use his executive authority to...

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