Debt relief and grad school: The case of teachers

Image:  While the broader conversation on debt relief has been mostly focused on undergraduates, there have been far less sympathetic attitudes towards relieving the debt of graduate or professional degree holders. Broad federal efforts to relieve the student debt of graduate and professional degree holders—for example, doctors and lawyers—are viewed by some as a waste of taxpayer dollars to help the well-off. Although some of the 37 percent of graduate students who hold student debt...