Most Texans believe student loan debt is a major problem and that state government needs to fund financial aid for all college students, according to a new poll released Tuesday.
“The most interesting thing that you see here is, on one hand, a set of very clear concerns by very high margins about student debt loan as a problem, and cost as an impediment for Texans who don’t have a degree,” said Jim Henson, a pollster and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who conducted the poll.
“People are concerned about those things not because they think there’s something wrong about higher education, but because they still attach such importance” to getting a college degree, he added.