Senator Elizabeth Warren has a plan to reduce the $1.5 trillion Americans owe in student loan debt. It’s a bold, expensive proposal from the 2020 presidential contender that could jump start the economy and close the racial wealth gap. Yet, the lion’s share of the benefit would go to wealthy Americans. Lou examines the fairness of Warren’s plan.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING
Warren Medium post on proposal
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Shapiro & Charron-Chénier’s analysis of proposal
https://elizabethwarren.com/wp-conten...

Urban Institute’s analysis of proposal
https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/who-...

Brookings Institute’s analysis of proposal
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-fro...

McCluskey’s criticism of Warren’s plan
https://www.cato.org/publications/com...

Ruetschlin’s paper on macroeconomic effects of student debt cancellation
http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/rpr...

Akers opinion piece on Warren’s plan
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/n...

CREDITS
Writer: Louis Foglia
Editor: Page Ellerson
Researcher: Dushyant Naresh
Supervising Producer: Allison Brown

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