Recent Briefs
61% of voters with student loan debt are not confident they will be able to make their monthly payments when they resume.
Data for Progress finds that 68% of voters support legislation to ban legacy admissions, including 72% of Democrats and 66% of both Republicans and Independents.
A majority of likely voters (54 percent) support implementing student loan debt relief through the Higher Education Act, including majorities of Democrats and Independents, and half of Republicans under 45.
Over two-thirds of likely voters say that students should be exposed to a variety of perspectives in their social studies.
60% of voters support the federal government eliminating ‘all’ or ‘some’ student loan debt for every borrower.
Voters believe that local school boards should not have the authority to ban books from school curriculums.
Recent Reports
Data for Progress and Student Borrower Protection Center consistently find broad support for loan cancellation, including among majorities of voters with no bachelor’s degrees and voters with no current student loan debt.
Student debt has increased dramatically in past decades and currently affects 45 million Americans, with about 4.4 million borrowers who have been making payments on student loans for more than twenty years.
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For-profit colleges have a long and well documented history of consumer abuses, deception, and fraud.
In the space of a few years, the prospect of cancelling outstanding student loans has moved from the far-out fringe of higher education policy reforms to the center of the policy debate, and it could become actual executive branch policy in the very near future.
As part of a September survey of likely voters in 11 swing states, including Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, Data for Progress along with Student Defense tested attitudes towards for-profit colleges, Department of Education regulations (ED), and loan forgiveness.