Higher Education

Note: (8/30/2022): This analysis is now out of date. We released an updated version of this analysis, available here, which updates the estimated cost...

Though most COVID relief has already been spent, several policies continue to provide ongoing financial support and could be renewed again by Congress...

Lawmakers and advocates have loudened their calls to cancel student loan debt before the current re-payment moratorium ends on May 1 st. Given the...

Recently, Adam Looney, Executive Director of the Marriner S. Eccles Institute at the University of Utah and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Economic...

We've previously estimated that cancelling all federal student debt would cost the same as the outstanding value of the loans, which is currently $1.6...

The Biden administration recently extended the federal student loan moratorium through January 2022. Under the moratorium, most federal student loan...

Last year, we estimated that fully canceling student debt would produce eight to 23 cents of economic activity for every dollar of cost and speculated...

In her recent Washington Post column, Catherine Rampell argues progressives should “be more progressive in an old-fashioned sense: by helping the poor...

Note: We published a follow-up piece on June 3, 2021 estimating the fiscal multipliers for cancelling $10,000 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt...

In April, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a plan for “universal free public college and cancellation of student...

Lawmakers will need offsets to keep year-end legislation from substantially worsening the debt, and one area we've suggested in our Mini-Bargain and...