All the ways student debt exacerbates racial inequality — ‘it’s like landing in quick sand’

All the ways student debt exacerbates racial inequality — ‘it’s like landing in quick sand’

Via MarketWatch 

By: Jillian Berman

Eileen Connor, the director of litigation at the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School talked to MarketWatch, about the predatory tactics used by for-profit colleges to target students of color and explained the disparate student-loan repayment outcomes between black and white students.

“If you take, on the one hand, the knowledge that there’s targeting and disproportionate enrollment in for-profit colleges of people of color,” Connor, said. “On the other hand, you look at traditional higher education and you see that access is limited in numbers to those same groups — that’s the whole puzzle right there.”