We, the prospective students, current students, graduates and other citizens of the United States demand real action on the crippling burden of student debt. It is time for the administration to take a bold leadership role on this issue rather than seeking to appease the financial industry and education lobby which currently holds the next generation hostage.
We are producing an entire generation with decreased mobility following graduation. This also leads to a more docile, less innovative and and less involved workforce as the specter of crippling debt casts a shadow over thier lives leaving them with fewer and fewer options.
Eliminating this debt would be no small undertaking, but the resulting boom to expendable income and economic mobility would be felt for decades. The time is now!