Dr. Terri Friedline is AEDI Faculty Director for Financial Inclusion and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. In August, Dr. Friedline had a piece published in Huffington Post. Title, College tuition has become unaffordable to many highly qualified students from middle and low income families. 7 out of 10 college students today must take out loans to pay for college. For those who choose to take on these loans, it means crushing debt that will threaten their future financial... The popularity of college promise programs -- or tuition-free initiatives for community colleges and in some cases for four-year degrees -- has been growing across the country in the last few years. But despite enthusiasm from families, policy makers, businesses and organizations to... Children’s savings accounts and college promise initiatives could be stronger if the two funding mechanisms for higher education were merged together, a professor argues in new paper that drew praise from a U.S. Senator who says he plans to pursue legislation and funding that would make it... CSAs were highlighted in The Hill, a popular blog read by members of Congress. The author refers to San Francisco’s K2C program as well as Dr. Elliott’s research supporting the positive effects of even small savings amounts. In December 2016, when the greater-than-expected costs of student debt forgiveness within Income-Based Repayment plans was prominent in the news, Dr. Elliott and Melinda Lewis co-authored a piece for New America about the true costs and insufficiencies of IBR schemes Demonstrating AEDI’s commitment to engaging in multiple media formats, Dr. Elliott was interviewed for Inversant’s podcast series. He framed CSAs as conduits for wealth transfers that are uniquely consistent with American values. Dr. Elliott wrote a piece for Talk Poverty about how inequities in the financial aid system constrain upward mobility and undermine education’s potency as an equalizing force in society, as well as how CSAs can counter these effects. MarketWatch featured Dr. Elliott’s research documenting the extent to which student debt slows college graduates’ ascent to the median of the income and wealth distributions, in October 2016. The piece subsequently generated some
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