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Mark Huelsman

Former Associate Director, Policy & Research
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The Bloomberg Higher Ed Plan: Silent on Debt, Decent on Affordability
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Debt-Free College in Arizona

Policy Briefs
February 2, 2021
Mark Huelsman

Debt-Free College in Michigan

Policy Briefs
February 2, 2021
Mark Huelsman

Delivering on Debt Relief: Proposals, Ideas, and Actions to Cancel Student Debt on Day One and Beyond

Policy Briefs
November 23, 2020
Mark Huelsman
Issues
Economic Justice
Debt-Free College
Work Area
Research & Policy Design
Research

Bridging Progressive Policy Debates: How Student Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap Reinforce Each Other

Research
September 9, 2019
Suzanne Kahn
Mark Huelsman
Jen Mishory

Debt to Society: The Case for Bold, Equitable Student Loan Cancellation and Reform

Research
June 6, 2019
Mark Huelsman

Social Exclusion: The State of State U for Black Students

Research
December 12, 2018
Mark Huelsman

A Blueprint for College without Debt

Research
September 26, 2018
Mark Huelsman

The Unaffordable Era: A 50-State Look at Rising College Prices and the New American Student

Research
February 22, 2018
Mark Huelsman

Out of Reach?

Research
July 12, 2016
Mark Huelsman

A Leg Up: How a Privileged Minority Is Graduating Without Debt

Research
July 6, 2016
Mark Huelsman

Less Debt, More Equity: Lowering Student Debt While Closing the Black-White Wealth Gap

Research
November 24, 2015
Mark Huelsman
Tamara Draut
Tatjana Meschede
Lars Dietrich
Thomas Shapiro
Laura Sullivan

The Debt Divide: The Racial and Class Bias Behind the "New Normal" of Student Borrowing

Research
May 19, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Connecticut’s Great Cost Shift

Research
October 20, 2014
Mark Huelsman
Robert Hiltonsmith

Minnesota’s Great Cost Shift

Research
August 25, 2014
Robert Hiltonsmith
Mark Huelsman

Virginia’s Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine the State’s Future Middle Class

Research
May 2, 2014
Mark Huelsman

New Jersey’s Great Cost Shift How Higher Education Cuts Undermine the State’s Future Middle Class

Research
May 2, 2014
Mark Huelsman
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Policy Briefs

Debt-Free College in Michigan

Policy Briefs
February 2, 2021
Mark Huelsman

Debt-Free College in Arizona

Policy Briefs
February 2, 2021
Mark Huelsman

Delivering on Debt Relief: Proposals, Ideas, and Actions to Cancel Student Debt on Day One and Beyond

Policy Briefs
November 23, 2020
Mark Huelsman

The Debt-Free College Act of 2018

Policy Briefs
March 22, 2018
Mark Huelsman
Vijay Das

Addressing the Top Misconceptions about Debt-Free College

Policy Briefs
September 28, 2016
Mark Huelsman

The Case for Debt-Free College

Policy Briefs
August 10, 2015
Mark Huelsman

The Affordable College Compact

Policy Briefs
September 16, 2014
Mark Huelsman
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Testimony and Public Comment

Student Debt and the Racial Wealth Gap

Testimony and Public Comment
May 22, 2020
Mark Huelsman

Letter to Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee Re: Appointment of Betsy DeVos

Testimony and Public Comment
January 13, 2017
Tamara Draut
Vijay Das
Mark Huelsman
In the media

Coronavirus Could Cause a Long-Term Higher Ed Crisis

In the media
March 12, 2020
Mark Huelsman

Elizabeth Warren’s Student Debt Plan: An Outsized Economic Boon for People of Color

In the media
April 27, 2019
Mark Huelsman

State Universities Are Being Resegregated

In the media
January 30, 2019
Mark Huelsman

Betsy DeVos is failing an entire generation of students

In the media
October 18, 2018
Mark Huelsman

Affirmative Action Is Not The Problem

In the media
August 8, 2018
Mark Huelsman

When it Comes to Student Debt, It’s Really a Matter of Wealth

In the media
May 16, 2018
Mark Huelsman

Betsy DeVos Is More Out of Touch on Student Debt Than You Even Thought

In the media
March 21, 2018
Mark Huelsman

How the Trump administration is undermining students of color

In the media
July 15, 2017
Mark Huelsman
Vijay Das

A Debt-Free College State of Mind

In the media
January 5, 2017
Mark Huelsman

There's Still Time for Obama to Stop the Student Debt Crisis

In the media
January 12, 2016
Mark Huelsman

Debt Free College Should Be Debt-Free

In the media
June 11, 2015
Mark Huelsman

How to Simplify the Tax Code and Eliminate Borrowing at Public Colleges

In the media
January 23, 2015
Mark Huelsman
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Press release/statement

Demos Supports Re-introduction of the Debt-Free College Act

Press release/statement
March 6, 2019
Mark Huelsman
Blog

Yes, Student Debt Cancellation Would be a Big Deal

Blog
November 19, 2020
Mark Huelsman

Why Free College Matters in the Time of COVID

Blog
October 22, 2020
Mark Huelsman

Five Ways Higher Education Can Stop Failing Black People

Blog
June 24, 2020
Mark Huelsman

The Bloomberg Higher Ed Plan: Silent on Debt, Decent on Affordability

Blog
February 20, 2020
Mark Huelsman

The True State of Our Union under the Trump Administration

Blog
February 7, 2020
Lew Daly
Mark Huelsman
Amy Traub
Laura Williamson

Why The Latest Moderate Criticisms of Free College Don’t Make Sense

Blog
November 22, 2019
Mark Huelsman

We Have an Opportunity to Transform Higher Education for the Better. It’s Time to Do So.

Blog
October 15, 2019
Mark Huelsman

These are the Questions We Should Be Asking in the Student Debt Cancellation Debate

Blog
July 3, 2019
Mark Huelsman

With Democracy Dollars, Everyone Can Give - And Our Democracy Can Thrive

Blog
May 3, 2019
Laura Williamson
Mark Huelsman
Emmanuel Caicedo

It’s Time to Take Student Debt Cancellation and Debt Free College Seriously

Blog
April 22, 2019
Mark Huelsman

It’s Time for Progressive States to Lead on Free College

Blog
May 11, 2018
Mark Huelsman

On Free College, West Virginia is a Case Study of What to Do and Not Do

Blog
January 17, 2018
Mark Huelsman

Tax Reform and Its Automatic Budget Cuts are Starve-the-Beast in Action

Blog
November 30, 2017
Mark Huelsman

The Senate GOP Tax Bill is Still Very Bad for Public Higher Education

Blog
November 28, 2017
Mark Huelsman

The House GOP Tax Plan Robs from Middle-Class Students and Borrowers without Giving to the Poor

Blog
November 3, 2017
Mark Huelsman

How the Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill Could Wind Up Increasing Student Loan Debt

Blog
September 21, 2017
Mark Huelsman

Want to Help Struggling Student Loan Borrowers? Start with Bankruptcy Reform

Blog
May 31, 2017
Mark Huelsman

Is Trump's Budget Actually Friendly to Low-Income Undergrads?

Blog
May 26, 2017
Mark Huelsman

Doing Free College Correctly

Blog
April 11, 2017
Mark Huelsman

We Should Be Paying A Lot More Attention to Community Colleges

Blog
March 30, 2017
Mark Huelsman

Need Last-Minute Bracket Help? These Schools Would Win if March Madness were About Affordability and Mobility

Blog
March 16, 2017
Mark Huelsman

What the Washington Post Editorial Board Gets Wrong on Student Debt

Blog
August 2, 2016
Mark Huelsman

Bracket Busted? Here’s the Sweet 16 of College Affordability

Blog
March 24, 2016
Mark Huelsman

There's Still Plenty the Obama Administration Could Do About Student Debt In Its Last Year

Blog
January 12, 2016
Mark Huelsman

Student Loans Should Be More Easily Discharged in Bankruptcy

Blog
December 1, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Donald Trump’s Kids Have Access to Debt Free College. Who Else Does?

Blog
November 16, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Student Debt and College Accountability are Not Mutually Exclusive Issues

Blog
July 28, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Student Debt Has Gotten Counterproductive and Unequal

Blog
June 19, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Five Reasons Why Debt-Free College Helps More than Just the Upper-Middle Class

Blog
May 18, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Debt-Free College is Doable

Blog
May 6, 2015
Mark Huelsman

How Can We Regulate For-Profit Colleges If We Keep Giving Them Our Credit Card?

Blog
April 1, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Today in Terrible Student Aid Ideas

Blog
March 19, 2015
Mark Huelsman

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget Makes the Right Investment in Higher Education

Blog
March 18, 2015
Mark Huelsman

The Federal Reserve Just Released a Boatload of Information on Student Debt. Here’s What It’s Telling Us.

Blog
February 20, 2015
Mark Huelsman

Free Community College is a Big Deal. Debt-Free College Would Be Transformative.

Blog
January 9, 2015
Mark Huelsman

What Happens When a For-Profit College Is on the Brink of Collapse?

Blog
November 15, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Germany Just Eliminated Tuition. It Wouldn’t Be That Hard for Us to Do the Same—And Then Some

Blog
October 2, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Congress Didn't Pay a Lot to Go to College. Today's Students Shouldn't Either.

Blog
September 16, 2014
Mark Huelsman

We Still Don't Know How Much Student Loans are Impacting the Housing Market

Blog
September 5, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Is Student Debt "Good Debt," "Bad Debt," or Both?

Blog
August 11, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Why College Sticker Price Still Matters

Blog
July 30, 2014
Mark Huelsman

The Most Important Piece of the Democrats’ Plan to Reauthorize the Higher Education Act

Blog
June 25, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Yes, Large Student Debt Burdens are Overblown. But We Still Have a Huge Student Debt Problem.

Blog
June 24, 2014
Mark Huelsman

The One-Two Punch of Income-Based Repayment and Student Loan Refinancing

Blog
June 9, 2014
Mark Huelsman

College is Worth it, But… (Or, Most Students Aren’t Economists)

Blog
May 28, 2014
Mark Huelsman

The Paradox of the Student Debt Crisis and "College is Worth It"

Blog
May 22, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Why Student Loan Refinancing is a No-Brainer

Blog
May 5, 2014
Mark Huelsman

Reflecting on $1 Trillion in Student Debt, and Why We're Headed for $2 Trillion

Blog
April 24, 2014
Mark Huelsman

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy that "College Isn't for Everyone"

Blog
March 19, 2014
Mark Huelsman

The Details On Obama's Higher Education Budget

Blog
March 5, 2014
Mark Huelsman
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