(Despite Joe Biden frequently suggesting otherwise.)
Though Biden has said he’s open to the idea of forgiving some amount of student loan debt—$10,000, and only if
—he’s intent on attaching several stipulations to the plan out of fear that rich students who went to “elite” colleges would benefit from a more wide-reaching“It depends on whether or not you go to a private university or public university,” Biden said in February. “It depends on the idea that I say to a community, ‘I’m going to forgive the debt, the billions of dollars of debt, for people who have gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn.
There are a number of common-sense arguments one could make against this assertion—for example, pointing out the mere fact that not everyone who goes to what might be called an “elite school” comes from an elite family—but why not take a look at some research-based findings?would
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