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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Elvia Malagón

‘It’s going to help me live a little bit better’: Relief from some student loan debt could lift ‘burden on everyone’

Students walk through campus Wednesday afternoon at the University of Illinois-Chicago, hours after President Joe Biden announced his long-awaited student loan relief plan. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Jarod Rhymes could finish his education without any debt after an announcement Wednesday from the White House signaled that his undergraduate student loans will likely be forgiven.

“That money that I would be using for federal loans will probably go straight to housing,” said Rhymes, who is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago studying urban planning and policy. “It’s going to help me live a little bit better, help me work a little bit less.”

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