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Student loan relief limited for many by US drug war’s legacy

FILE - Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., left, and Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., talk to reporters about a legislative package to address the problem of crack cocaine on Aug. 5, 1986, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Some borrowers of color stand to benefit less from President Bides’s proposal to provide student loan forgiveness as at least a generation of Black and Hispanic Americans were disproportionately shut out of the Pell Grant program, due to a “war on drugs” era policy that he supported as a U.S. senator. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, File)

FILE — President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at right. Many have cheered President Joe Biden's proposal to provide student loan forgiveness to millions of Americans as a significant step toward addressing the nation's racial wealth gap and other inequities facing borrowers of color. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Student loan relief limited for many by US drug war’s legacy