Vox spoke with Tressie McMillan Cottom, Fred Wherry and Seth Frotman and others on the wider benefits of debt forgiveness.

Two Network scholars argue cancelling student debt would obtain wide economic benefits.

An Open Letter to President Biden:

Dear President Biden,

We are scholars who study student debt, higher education, and racial inequality. We write to urge you to use your executive authority to cancel student debt as soon as possible. Doing so will address racial debt disparities, provide urgent economic relief for all Americans, further stimulate the economic recovery, and right a series of wrongs….

To see the letter published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, click here.

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Fred Wherry talks to the New York Times about human relationships in bartering during pandemic-era lockdowns.

Deborah shares a report for Black Sash on “reckless lending” in South Africa. See the related coverage at Ground Up as well as new stories and television coverage gathered at Deborah’s book site on Facebook.

Educators push for changes centered on student-borrowers in Inside Higher Ed.

Fred Wherry talks to Joe Pinsker for The Atlantic.

Fred Wherry speaks at the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program on his new book on rethinking financial citizenship, co-authored with Kristin S. Seefeldt and Anthony Alvarez.

Aaron Klein and Lisa Servon speak with Fred Wherry for their opinion piece in the Washington Post.

The Urban Institute presents a new series of interactive maps of failing auto, medical, and student loans across the US. These maps visualize the geography of debt disparities that reinforce existing wealth gaps between white communities and communities of color.