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How the Trump administration is undermining students of color

Mark Huelsman
Vijay Das
The Guardian

Black students are far more likely to take on debt for a degree than white students, and young black households have more student debt despite fewer educational opportunities and a more uncertain payoff in the job market. For-profit programs enroll a disproportionate share of working class students, veterans, and students of color and account for an outsized share of loan borrowing, defaults, and delinquencies. 

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