Student loan debt isn’t just an economic issue, it’s a public health issue. Even as a new Gallup poll shows nearly half of Americans consider COVID-19 to be over, the stress of student debt, though eased temporarily by a moratorium on loan payments, is not.
Unfortunately, student loans are often only seen as an economic problem, not a public health problem. Student loan debt in the United States has reached a crisis moment: 48 million borrowers collectively owe $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt. Including private student loans, the debt increases to $1.7 trillion.
