{"id":52539,"date":"2022-09-20T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52539"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T17:31:11","slug":"what-the-biden-administration-can-do-next-to-tackle-rising-college-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52539","title":{"rendered":"What the Biden administration can do next to tackle rising college tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>College costs have far outpaced inflation for at least a decade, fueling the student debt crisis and pushing the Biden administration to pursue drastic overhauls \u2013 beginning with debt forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Critics of debt forgiveness point to myriad issues with the plan, as it fails to address directly the needs of future borrowers by leaving college tuition and fees unaddressed. It\u2019s been a glaring issue facing higher education for decades, with college costs increasing 63 percent from 2006 to 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College costs have far outpaced inflation&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52540,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52539\/revisions\/52540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}