20 years after starting college, black student loan borrower still owe 95% of the debt while white students have paid 94% of their debt off. The racial wealth gap is exacerbated by the student loan debt crisis. https://t.co/NVscrBfhjR pic.twitter.com/H6savXJ0YH
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) September 29, 2019
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Black students graduate on average with $4,000 more in student loans than white students.
Our plan to cancel all student debt with a tax on Wall Street will cut the racial wealth gap among young Americans by more than half. pic.twitter.com/ExnqYw7k1E
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) September 29, 2019
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For every $1 a U.S. White family owns, the median Black family has $.08. How official #redlining helped create the racial wealth gap: https://t.co/vbe3gpljVX #JustEconomy
— NCRC (@NCRC) October 1, 2019
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My sister, @JillBazelon: “We see it as a social justice issue,” says Jill Bazelon, director and co-founder of Bridges to Wealth and professor in Penn’s Graduate School of Education. “Historically, underserved populations have been shut out of the market.” https://t.co/7AHsnsXNaK
— Lara Bazelon (@larabazelon) October 1, 2019
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.@AOC: "America is at its wealthiest point that we've ever been and yet we are at one of our most unequal points that we've ever been." pic.twitter.com/9bNsUZtzlJ
— The Hill (@thehill) September 27, 2019