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What “Risk Aversion” Gets Wrong About the Racial Wealth Gap
This socioeconomic model only explains about 10 percent of risk willingness. However, the race model only explains 1 percent. Black and Latinx respondents were less likely to have above-average and average risk willingness than White respondents, but Black respondents were also less likely to be risk averse than White respondents. The descriptive statistics and regression models above demonstrate that risk willingness is not simply a factor of race, but also one of socioeconomic status.
Coronavirus could have a long-term impact on state funding of universities (opinion)
The impact of the coronavirus epidemic on higher education has been swift. The outbreak has already upended conference schedules and athletic events, and institutions have begun to cancel classes and move them online. It is forcing colleges to consider large-scale preventative measures to keep students and faculty healthy, as well as to create plans for when infections do materialize on their campus. Institutions are also grappling with the impact on exchange programs and international students.
Bridging Progressive Policy Debates: How Student Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap Reinforce Each Other
The $1.6 trillion student debt crisis is holding back many Americans, but it is especially damaging to racial equality. Already disadvantaged by generational wealth disparities, Black students and their families end up paying more for college than white families do, and they get a lot less in the end. To build a higher education system that fosters equality, it’s necessary to bring together two policy conversations: research on higher education access and research on the racial wealth gap.
Only One Candidate's Student Debt Plan Narrows the Black-White Wealth Gap
Commentary Politics Jul 8, 2019, 4:28pm Mark Huelsman It's potentially simpler to communicate a policy of total student debt cancellation, but that simplicity comes at the cost of offloading the debt of a group of high-income, disproportionately white households. Sparked by dueling proposals from U.S. Sens.
An Economic Boon for People of Color
Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) this week unveiled an ambitious plan to make college free, expand Pell Grants for students with low incomes, and cancel student loan debt for most borrowers, including around 8 in 10 Black and Latinx people.
Elizabeth Warren's Student Debt Plan: An Outsized Economic Boon for People of Color
Commentary Economic Justice Apr 26, 2019, 3:28pm Mark Huelsman The dramatic rise in student debt has placed unacceptable risk on working-class families and on people of color, who must take on more debt for the same degree as white students. Economists estimate that 80 percent of Black households with debt and 83 percent of Latinx households with debt, would see it eliminated entirely.
State Universities Are Being Resegregated
Nearly half of all elite public universities are enrolling a lower percentage of black students than they were in the mid-1990s. fb tw mail Print msg wa sms Students walk through the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 20, 2018. (Reuters / Jonathan Drake) Ready to fight back? Sign up for Take Action Now and get three actions in your inbox every week. You will receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism.
Betsy DeVos is failing an entire generation of students
(CNN) - Thirty-nine years ago this week, President Jimmy Carter stood in the East Room of the White House alongside more than 200 education officials, a group of fourth grade students, and civil rights hero Dr. Benjamin Mays to sign a bill creating a new Department of Education.
Betsy DeVos is failing an entire generation of students
(CNN) - Thirty-nine years ago this week, President Jimmy Carter stood in the East Room of the White House alongside more than 200 education officials, a group of fourth grade students, and civil rights hero Dr. Benjamin Mays to sign a bill creating a new Department of Education.
Betsy DeVos is failing an entire generation of students
Mark Huelsman is an associate director for policy and research at Demos, a progressive think tank. His research focuses on college affordability, student debt, financial aid and state investment in higher education. The views expressed here are solely his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Perspective | When it comes to student debt, it’s really a matter of wealth
Ask a group of higher-education policy wonks about the best way to address our nation’s growing student loan problem, and you’re likely to find one solution overlaps party or ideology: Enroll more borrowers in income-driven loan repayment. IDR, as it’s commonly known, has existed in some form at the federal level since the 1990s and provides a simple but elegant solution for student borrowers who increasingly come out of school with high debts and low incomes.
Betsy DeVos Is More Out of Touch on Student Debt Than You Even Thought
Last week, Betsy DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education did something uncharacteristic. In an extraordinary announcement, the Department argued that states do not have authority to oversee student loan companies operating in their states and that regulation should be left to the federal government. The irony of an administration that often touts small government and states rights trying to crack down on state consumer protection was not lost on many consumer advocates.
How the Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Could Wind Up Increasing Student Loan Debt
When states cut higher education budgets, public colleges are faced with a few bad options: increase tuition for in-state students, increase the number of wealthy out-of-state students who will pay more for the same education, or take cost-cutting measures that may dilute the quality of the education that students receive, such as reducing full-time faculty, eliminating student support services, or decreasing course offerings.
The Justice Department's Affirmative Action Probe Is a Dog Whistle
Last Wednesday, The New York Times reported that the Justice Department is considering investigating colleges and universities for discriminating against white students applying for admission. By Thursday, the department denied that they were planning to change policies related to affirmative action or race-based college admissions policies, and that any effort would likely address anti-Asian bias instead.
Need Last-Minute Bracket Help? These Schools Would Win if March Madness were About Affordability and Mobility
Today marks an annual rite of spring for American workers, who across the country are joining in solidarity for a massive work slowdown, sending a strong message to employers that the decoupling of productivity and worker pay has resulted in a pretty raw deal for everyone but those at the very top of the economic ladder.
On Tuesday, New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo revived one of the signature policy proposals of the 2016 presidential campaign, announcing a plan to provide tuition-free college to students entering the state's two- and four-year state colleges and universities, through a new program called the Excelsior Scholarship.
Clinton vs. Trump: How Your Vote Will Impact Your Student Debt
Americans owe an estimated $1.4 trillion in student debt. Given the size of the issue, college affordability and student debt are at the top of mind for many voters. Thankfully, both major party candidates for president have proposed policy solutions, though they couldn't be more different. Donald Trump spent the better part of two years avoiding the topic of student loans and college affordability, failing to put forth a plan to help struggling families afford college tuition and pay off debt.
Hillary Clinton Debt-Free College Plan Makes Brief Debate Appearance
One could be forgiven for missing it, but at the very beginning of what turned into a surreal first debate of the 2016 election cycle, Hillary Clinton took the opportunity to recommit to an America in which all students have an opportunity to graduate from college without taking on debt.
No, the student loan crisis isn’t overblown
Inside Higher Ed This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. Since student debt, free tuition, and debt-free higher education have emerged as presidential campaign–level issues, a narrative has begun to emerge among elite news media that the rising price of college and ever-increasing student debt are phantom problems given the overall lifetime benefits of a college degree.
No, the student loan crisis isn’t overblown
Since student debt, free tuition, and debt-free higher education have emerged as presidential campaign–level issues, a narrative has begun to emerge among elite news media that the rising price of college and ever-increasing student debt are phantom problems given the overall lifetime benefits of a college degree.
Student debt is a problem with a color and class element (essay)
Since student debt, free tuition and debt-free higher education have emerged as presidential campaign-level issues, a narrative has begun to emerge among elite news media that the rising price of college and ever-increasing student debt are phantom problems given the overall lifetime benefits of a college degree.
Out of Reach? How a Shared Definition of College Affordability Exposes a Crisis for Low-Income Students
“We have to make college affordable for every American, because no hardworking student should be stuck in the red.” President Barack Obama, 2016 “One of the central problems of our outdated higher education system is that it has become increasingly unaffordable for those who stand to benefit the most.” Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), 2015 Across the political spectrum, there is widespread recognition that the rising price of college—particularly at public institutions that educate the majority of...
A Leg Up: How a Privileged Minority Is Graduating Without Debt
The rapid and unrelenting rise in student debt over the past decade has put college affordability and student loan policy at the forefront of the national political conversation.
Bracket Busted? Here’s the Sweet 16 of College Affordability
The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is a massive revenue-generating event, with implications beyond the $10 many of us wasted by entering our office March Madness pools (thanks a heap, Michigan State). This is not news, but the bright lights of network television and Coca-Cola sponsorships tend to obscure the fact that the teams playing represent, you know, actual institutions of higher learning.
Sanders and Clinton Aren't That Different on Debt-Free College
Matt Yglesias had an interesting piece in Vox on Thursday outlining how Sen. Bernie Sanders has won him over with his plan for free tuition at public colleges and universities. The thrust of the piece is that public college is a public service, analogous to public K-12 education (or fire departments for that matter) and thus should be freely available to everyone regardless of income.
There’s still time for Obama to stop the student debt crisis
The fourth quarter of the Obama presidency has been relatively active when it comes to higher education.
There's Still Plenty the Obama Administration Could Do About Student Debt In Its Last Year
The fourth quarter of the Obama presidency has been relatively active when it comes to higher education.
Student loans don’t have to be this miserable: The simple fix that could save our college grads
This weekend, Kevin Carey, head of New America’s Education Policy Program, penned a piece for the New York Times featuring the story of Liz Kelley, a parochial school teacher whose student loan balance has ballooned to $410,000.
The Case for Debt-Free College
Today, the typical young person aspiring to go to college in the United States faces a higher education system that is fundamentally different from what previous generations enjoyed. For generations, our system of colleges and universities, and the federal aid system undergirding it, were generously funded and made higher education the primary lever of upward economic mobility.
The Debt Divide: The Racial and Class Bias Behind the "New Normal" of Student Borrowing
Today, taking out loans is the primary way individuals pay for college—a major shift in how our nation provides access to higher education. While concerns about the growth in college costs and student debt are nearly universal, much of this concern focuses on how college debt is impacting the economic well-being of college graduates and our overall economy.
Five Reasons Why Debt-Free College Helps More than Just the Upper-Middle Class
There has been much joy in progressive circles this week, as Hillary Clinton’s campaign has floated an embrace of debt-free higher education, following broad statements of support from other candidates as well as a group of influential Senate Democrats. As with any bold idea, there has been some mild pushback as to who stands to benefit.
How Can We Regulate For-Profit Colleges If We Keep Giving Them Our Credit Card?
1.) Yesterday, after some dogged journalistic legwork by Inside Higher Ed’s Michael Stratford, the Department of Education released a list of 560 colleges that have been placed under a level of extra scrutiny– known as “Heightened Cash Monitoring”—due to concerns about a college’s finances or administrative capacity, or as the result of an audit, or simply because a college didn’t comply with various federal reporting requirements.
What Happens When a For-Profit College Is on the Brink of Collapse?
For those in need of an angry read, I highly recommend Molly Hensley-Clancy’s piece in Buzzfeed on the ignominious fall of Corinthian Colleges, the first publicly-traded for-profit education company to shut down. It’s chock full of infuriating anecdotes about how a college used advanced marketing practices and outright deception to lure students into attending college, taking on mountains of student debt, all while providing minimal value in the job market.
The Affordable College Compact
As a postsecondary degree has become more important than ever in the labor market, and the primary means by which one enters the middle class, the U.S. has simultaneously made it more difficult and more expensive to attain. Over the course of three decades, the cost of public colleges and universities—which educated nearly 3 in 4 students—has risen dramatically.
You can blame student debt for America’s inequality and shrinking middle class
There is a tendency among elite opinion makers to believe that debt accrued while gaining a college degree is “good debt” that isn’t problematic because, as the thought goes, those with college degrees tend to make enough money to recoup their debt over a lifetime. Student debt is supposedly an equalizer—a way for students to gain access to credit in order to get a degree that will give them an equal chance to enter the middle class and achieve the American Dream.
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