The student-loan crisis disproportionately affects Latinx students. Forgiveness of at least $10,000 would mean a huge weight off their shoulders.
This fear of accumulating debt and therefore having it impact their families can lead to two major outcomes, according to Vanessa Sansone, Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She referred to those major outcomes as students choosing not to go to college or changing where they go according to what is affordable.
Dally Matos, a graduate student at Columbia University pursuing a master's degree in social work, said everything she knows has been through her own research. Dally Matos, a graduate student at Columbia University, says her debt has taken a serious toll on her mental health. She wishes there was more education around student loans and repayment plans.Although she was always told there are private scholarships and outsider funders, she couldn't apply to those due to the limiting time constraints she was facing in her everyday life.
Between her undergraduate and graduate programs, Matos will graduate owing around $85,000 in student loans. Her father, who has suffered multiple heart attacks, has been helping her pay some of her loans but Jacho is working four jobs to help take that load off from her dad.Sandra Ocampo, a fifth-year student at the University of California, Los Angeles, double majoring in communication and sociology, is an undocumented student who struggled to find out what aid she qualified for.
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