“More than 40 million Americans are estimated to have student loan debt and the Federal Reserve estimates that in the third quarter of 2020, Americans owed more than $1.7 trillion in student loans. Studies show that students of color are more likely to take on student debt and disproportionately stru…”— Lauren Egan, nbcnews.com
“We do want to create a system that is of the people, for the people. Many of the policies that we advocate, whether it is Medicare for all, or cancelling out student debt, or dealing with our climate crisis, most of those policies poll at 70 percent plus.”— Ilhan Omar, cbsnews.com
“There’s a direct correlation between corporations that are getting rich, and the fact that we have students who are shackled with debt. There is a direct correlation between the White House and the people who are benefiting from detention beds that are profitized [sic].”— Ilhan Omar, ips-dc.org
“It’s been argued that the rising costs of college fall disproportionately on lower-income people, as well as on non-whites and non-Asians, who rely more heavily on loans to cover tuition, room and board, etc. than richer folks do.”— Adam Elder, melmagazine.com