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Paying for college, it's a hurdle, especially if you have to borrow. 45 million Americans

owe an average of $37,000 each in student loans. That's enough to pay a year's salary for

roughly 27 million teachers. So it's no wonder that many former students struggle to

make their monthly loan payments. And one reason that some politicians are now pressing

to have those loans forgiven. They say doing that would stimulate the economy and would

free up those graduates to pursue their own goals in life. Others say it's a terrible idea

that cancelling student debt would burden all taxpayers with the costs of college, whether

they went to college or not, that it would do nothing to address the soaring costs of

higher education and would benefit wealthy borrowers who don't need their student loans

canceled. So here's the debate. Should America forgive student debt?

Meaning for the yes answer to that question is Ashley Harrington, a federal advocacy

director and senior counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending. Her partner in the

debate, Dalie Jimenez, a professor at the University of California Irvine School of Law

and Director of the Student Loan Law Initiative. Opposing them, arguing that student debt should

not be forgiven unmasked, Beth Acres, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

and former economist with the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush.

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