Education

Although a central part of Trump’s education agenda involves closing the Department of Education, 53% of voters oppose this action.

Swing voters see Harris as more competent than Trump and as someone who is better at working across the aisle and fighting for people like them.

Voters, including Independents, are concerned about the economic and health care changes that Project 2025 proposes.

Voters across partisanship, and especially parents of children under 18, are very concerned about mental health conditions such as depression, suicidal ideation, and anxiety among K-12 students.

Key policies in the CPC agenda have broad support among Democrats, Independents, and voters in swing states.

61% of voters with student loan debt are not confident they will be able to make their monthly payments when they resume.

Data for Progress and Student Borrower Protection Center consistently find broad support for loan cancellation, including among majorities of voters with no bachelor’s degrees and voters with no current student loan debt.

Student debt has increased dramatically in past decades and currently affects 45 million Americans, with about 4.4 million borrowers who have been making payments on student loans for more than twenty years.

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For-profit colleges have a long and well documented history of consumer abuses, deception, and fraud.

In the space of a few years, the prospect of cancelling outstanding student loans has moved from the far-out fringe of higher education policy reforms to the center of the policy debate, and it could become actual executive branch policy in the very near future.

As part of a September survey of likely voters in 11 swing states, including Florida, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, Data for Progress along with Student Defense tested attitudes towards for-profit colleges, Department of Education regulations (ED), and loan forgiveness.