With the country’s total student loan debt amounting to about $1.5 trillion, borrowers lose an average of $208,000 in lifetime wealth accumulation that could have come from retirement savings, investments or home purchases, according to studies from Washington, D.C.-based think tank Demos.

“Your income or your family’s wealth is extremely predictive of whether you’re going to go college at all and certainly what program you’re going to do."

“If you compare this to some of the other gifts given in higher education, it’s incredibly stark, and I would hope points us to a smarter, better model of philanthropy where people’s lives are genuinely being transformed.”

The Department's proposed "EAP Rule" fails to sufficiently safeguard working people.

How and why the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 has played such a critical role in increasing access to voter registration.

The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

The Case for Bold, Equitable Student Loan Cancellation and Reform

"Florida must provide comprehensive bilingual elections assistance, and it must provide it now."

Campaign finance reforms help address the racial and economic injustices that continue to plague our democracy.

"The potential of this plan is that it increases public investment back to levels we saw when college was much more affordable, and it pegs it to a price for students."