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Direct linkPew Charitable Trusts, 2021
Student debt levels were already pronounced before the pandemic hit, with $91.1 billion in annual federal student lending in 2019-20, up from $20.7 billion in 1990-91. Over that same period, per-student borrowing rose from $2,110 to $6,276, after adjusting for inflation. Evidence available as of Nov. 20, 2021, suggests that the COVID-19 downturn…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
Download full textHegji, Alexandra – Congressional Research Service, 2021
The William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program makes several types of federal student loans available to individuals to assist them with financing postsecondary education expenses. It represents the single largest source of federal financial assistance to support students' postsecondary educational pursuits. The U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Postsecondary Education
Backstrom, Brian – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2021
Nearly 43 million college student borrowers across the United States owe more than $1.56 trillion in outstanding federal student loans. The number of student borrowers in the country has increased by 1.3 million, or 3.1 percent, over the past five years, while the amount of outstanding student debt in the country has increased by a whopping $…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, College Students
Fletcher, Carla; Cornett, Allyson; Webster, Jeff – Trellis Company, 2021
The State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas (SOSA) annual report from Trellis Research provides information helpful in informing policy and programs for higher education student financial aid. The report serves as a reference for colleges, universities, and policymakers, and provides a comparison of Texas state and federal student aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid
Fletcher, Carla; Cornett, Allyson; Klepfer, Kasey – Trellis Company, 2020
The "State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas" ("SOSA") annual report from Trellis Research provides information helpful in informing policy and programs for higher education student financial aid. The report serves as a reference for colleges, universities, and policymakers, and provides a comparison of Texas state…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Higher Education, Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid
American Association of University Women, 2020
This is an update to the report "Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans." Americans today carry $1.54 trillion in student loan debt. That number has more than doubled over the last decade--increasing at nearly six times the rate of inflation. Women are particularly burdened, holding nearly two-thirds of all outstanding loans--around…
Descriptors: Debt (Financial), Females, Student Loan Programs, College Students
