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Eduardo Porter

Eduardo Porter: Deliver students from debt by investing in state schools

President Joe Biden is going to spend several hundred billion dollars to cancel the debts of millions of college students. This big outlay will probably bolster his standing among graduates in the up-to-$125,000-a-year salary range who populate the deep-blue voting grounds of urban America.

Perhaps the next administration will try to fix the problem with America’s higher education.

A generation or so ago, America decided that expanding access to a college education was critical to underpinning economic progress and extending economic opportunity across American society.

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