Student loan debt adds to racial wealth disparities, research finds

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Heard on: Marketplace Morning Report

October 27, 2020

“While the pandemic has forced some to take a break from college to reduce expenses or save money, the burden of growing student debt was an issue long before COVID. And research suggests there is a growing racial inequality problem with student debt.

Fenaba Addo is a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsinā€“Madison and has researched this student debt gap. The following is an edited transcript of her interview with ā€œMarketplace Morning Reportā€ host David Brancaccio.”

Listen to the full interview here.