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President Joe Biden's new plan to "cancel runaway interest" on student loans may reach as many as 25 million borrowers.

President Joe Biden proposed expanding access to free community college across the U.S., and other initiatives to make higher education less costly.

86.4% of Black bachelor’s degree holders and 81% of Black students pursuing master's and doctoral degrees borrow for school.

Jayk7/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the first week of October, Kennedy Quintanilla will do something she has not had to do since graduating from college two years ago: make a student loan payment. "Reality is setting in," Quintanilla, a 2021 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with over $26,000 in student loan debt, told Good Morning America. "It’s extraordinary stressful." As someone who graduated college amid the coronavirus pandemic, Quintanilla, 24, will be one...

In the first week of October, Kennedy Quintanilla will do something she has not had to do since graduating from college two years ago: make a student loan payment. As someone who graduated college amid the coronavirus pandemic, Quintanilla, 24, will be one of thousands of borrowers making their first-ever student loan payment in October, when payments resume after a three-year pause. The first-time payments are particularly impacting members of Gen Z, like Quintanilla, who were born after 1996...

Jayk7/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the first week of October, Kennedy Quintanilla will do something she has not had to do since graduating from college two years ago: make a student loan payment. "Reality is setting in," Quintanilla, a 2021 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with over $26,000 in student loan debt, told Good Morning America. "It’s extraordinary stressful." As someone who graduated college amid the coronavirus pandemic, Quintanilla, 24, will be one...

Jayk7/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the first week of October, Kennedy Quintanilla will do something she has not had to do since graduating from college two years ago: make a student loan payment. "Reality is setting in," Quintanilla, a 2021 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with over $26,000 in student loan debt, told Good Morning America. "It’s extraordinary stressful." As someone who graduated college amid the coronavirus pandemic, Quintanilla, 24, will be one...

Jayk7/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the first week of October, Kennedy Quintanilla will do something she has not had to do since graduating from college two years ago: make a student loan payment. "Reality is setting in," Quintanilla, a 2021 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with over $26,000 in student loan debt, told Good Morning America. "It’s extraordinary stressful." As someone who graduated college amid the coronavirus pandemic, Quintanilla, 24, will be one...

Call to Action at CBCF Conference Featured Civil Rights, Education, & Economic Justice Advocates, and Resources for Borrowers Washington, DC — Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), borrowers, and advocates renewed their urgent call for student debt cancellation with loan payments set to resume on October 1, 2023. Their calls came at a policy discussion titled […]

Joe Bidens administration has made student loan forgiveness a key policy issue to the ire of Republicans.