Another Extension of the Student-Loan-Repayment Freeze Is Bad Policy

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President Joe Biden announces new actions against Russia for its war in Ukraine at the White House in Washington, D.C., March 8, 2022. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
But for Joe Biden, it might be good politics.




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or the last two years, federal student-loan borrowers have been excused, without penalty, from repaying their debts. In the meantime, taxpayers, who financed those debts, were left holding the bag while many high-earning borrowers rode the gravy train. Repayment was initially put on pause by the CARES Act at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, before we fully understood what the pandemic’s economic impact would be. But with the economic fallout from Covid largely behind us, this moratorium on student-loan repayment should now be coming to an end.

Unfortunately, it seems that the Biden administration may have other plans.

Loan repayment was first …

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