Even as all students increasingly take out student loans to pay for college, debt disproportionately burdens black college graduates, according to the Gallup-Purdue Index.
It’s a “borrowing gap” between black and white graduates that has persisted for decades and negatively affects quality of life after college, the national findings said.
And that means despite whatever progress the nation has made on racial issues, says Gallup Education executive director Brandon Busteed, some inequalities persist.
“We think of college as the great equalizer,” he said. “We’ve still got some real differences between black and white college graduates. There’s still a lot of work to be done.”
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