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Financing Graduate Education: Next Steps for Federal Policy

American Enterprise Institute

August 1, 2024

Key Points

  • In the interest of students and taxpayers, it is time for bipartisan and commonsense graduate financing policy reform. 
  • This issue’s complexity and importance demand a comprehensive solution that balances protecting students and taxpayers from low-value programs with ensuring equitable access to high-value ones. 
  • Doing so will require additional support to students and institutions that have need and provide significant value and a system with sufficient data transparency to understand the effects of the policy changes.

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