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would become more accessible. Ultimately, student loan ollege students and cancellation would move to the alumni may have a break on forefront. their wallets as U.S. Senator “It should be easy to enroll Patty Murray proposed a fourin a sensible repayment plan, point plan to ease student loan no one should end up with a payments. monthly payment they can’t “I’ve heard horror stories afford, and debt relief shouldn’t from so many people who are require making it through a struggling with the system,” Sen. gauntlet of paperwork,” Murray Murray said in her message said to Forbes. “This is not too with the Washington Post. “It’s much to ask—so until we fix not just an inconvenience, it’s our student loan system, the just not working.” student loan payment pause Tyrese Frazier attended must continue to provide borSouthern Miss for three years rowers much-needed relief.” until he transferred to a cheapThe proposal would impact er school, but like many stuabout 400,000 Mississippi dents, he used student loans to students directly because the pay off each semester. students owe an outstanding The cost of the university balance of over $15 billion. tortured Frazier’s wallet because According to the Southern he misunderstood the price of Regional Education Board, the student loans. largest portion of families with “I’m afraid that if I miss college students in Mississippi one payment, it’ll be hard to paid about 50% of their annual catch back up, and I’m hoping income after financial aid for that I’ll have a stable job with one year’s tuition at a four-year a steady income to pay them university. back,” Frazier said. “Otherwise, “The cost of education beI’m not quite sure how I will came too much for me being pay them back yet.” a first generation student and Murray’s proposal works tosupporting myself in college,” wards student loan cancellation Mississippi tuition, like the in four steps, and students like rest of the country, continues Frazier would gain a cheaper to rise, which raises the loan experience for colleges. debt for students like Frazier Students would receive a and others on Southern Miss fresh start on their credit histo- campus. ries that student loans heavily “And we’ve got to be clearimpacted. eyed that the cost of college is Student loan repayment continuing to sky-rocket—so would match the income of the to truly address the root of this borrowers. problem and put our students Student loan forgiveness on a path to success, the Biden
Administration must continue working with Congress to lower the cost of higher education and make sure it’s actually helping students get quality, high-paying jobs,” Murray said on her website. Murray wants to extend Mississippi students with student loans graduate with (Photo/Charlie Luttrell) an average of nearly $20,000 of debt (via LendEDU) the pause on the outstanding Also, Republicans look at balance in the nation, so she the proposal as a waste of taxand the Biden administration payers’ money. With students can implement the most efpaying less for school, taxpayers fective plan for borrowers. The would pay more. pause would give her and The Sen. Patty Murray awaits a Biden administration to craft decision on the proposal, but the best plan. until then, Frazier and other Republicans oppose the student loan borrowers will plan because the pause would remain in a pause until May 1, rely heavily on the Heroes Act 2022. of 2003, which gives the SecA decision should be made retary of Education power to before the end of the pause, so adjust any requirement of the keep an eye out for the fourHigher Education Act of 1965 point plan.For more informaduring a national emergency tion on the plan or the pause, like a pandemic. visit Sen. Patty Murray’s website.