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America’s Student Loans Were Never Going to Be Repaid - Commentary

Laura Beamer, lead higher education finance researcher at the Jain Family Institute, and Marshall Steinbaum, senior research fellow at the institute and an assistant economics professor at the University of Utah, write:  
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government stopped requiring regular payments of student loan debt — a pause that has lasted more than three years. But student loan repayment had been dwindling for at least a decade before the pause. You can imagine the stock of outstanding student debt as an overflowing bathtub: More students purchasing more undergraduate and advanced degrees at increasing tuition prices is the water gushing out of the faucet, and non-repayment is a blockage in the drain.
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