Student loan crisis awaits new generation despite Biden plan
Associated PressWASHINGTON — For millions of Americans, President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation offers a life-changing chance to escape the burden of debt. She wishes Biden’s debt plan, or something like it, would be available to her and her peers, saying it would be “an incentive to have more people go to college.” In Olathe, Kansas, high-school senior Natalie Ren said it’s frustrating that today’s college students will get relief but her class, less than a year away from college, won’t. “So to me, it’s just like, Well, why are they getting the $10,000 taken off of their student loan debt?” said Ren, 17. “This doesn’t fundamentally solve the student debt problem,” said Marc Goldwein, the budget group’s senior policy director. “To avoid forcing current and future students into the same debt morass, we must act in a comprehensive manner to modernize the federal student loan program,” said Ted Mitchell, the group’s president.