Students whose college years were upended by Covid face their next hurdle: repaying loans

By Claretta Bellamy After Covid completely upended life on college campuses, students and recent graduates are encountering a new challenge: student loans. Federal student loan payments are resuming this week, ending the three-year pause enacted through policies in 2020 to ease financial burdens when the Covid pandemic rattled the economy and countless people’s livelihoods. Millions of college students and graduates — including Black women, who carry the highest burden of student debt — held on to the hope of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which the Supreme Court struck down in June. Yet, Biden is aiming to push policies that would provide relief The post Students whose college years were upended by Covid face their next hurdle: repaying loans appeared first on HBCU News.