How Student Debt Ballooned to $1.6 Trillion

Wall Street Journal:

Federal student loan payments are set to resume in September, leaving millions of Americans on the hook for payments that were frozen at the beginning of the pandemic. But, how did borrowers become hobbled with more than $1 trillion in federal student debt? Join Wall Street Journal editor Bourree Lam in conversation with reporter Joshua Mitchell, author of “The Debt Trap,” and Andrea Fuller as they break down how student debt swelled over the years and the current plans to provide forgiveness to borrowers.