student loan debt crisis
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Trump Administration Blocked Investigation Into Student Loan Forgiveness Program
As student loan debt grew into a $1.5 trillion crisis, Trump administration officials coordinated a deliberate effort to obstruct a watchdog agency from investigating abuse by student loan servicers, circumventing a law that offered debt forgiveness to college graduates. In 2007, Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, a plan with a simple idea:…