Mark Huelsman helps shape Demos’ overall policy and research agenda, and his own research focuses on college affordability, student debt, and racial equity in higher education.
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.
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.
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