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Student-loan borrowers are taking on debt they can't pay off. There's a renewed push to prevent that.
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Extra Extra has grouped 5 reports on this story from 5 news outlets across the political spectrum. By political lean, that breaks down as 2 left-leaning, 2 center, and 1 right-leaning sources.
With a coverage-diversity score of 96 out of 100, this is one of the more evenly reported stories in our index right now — left, center, and right outlets are all giving it attention.
On reliability, 4 of the 5 rated outlets carry a high or mostly-factual reliability rating (A or B) and 1 outlet fall into our mixed or lower-reliability tier (C or D). Ratings are drawn from independent assessments and are meant to help you weigh each report, not to tell you which to trust.
Coverage of this story has developed over roughly 19 hours, so the perspectives below capture how the framing shifted as the story matured.
Below, the same story is laid out side by side as left, center, and right outlets reported it. Read across the columns and watch what changes: the headline emphasis, which facts lead, the adjectives, and what each side leaves out. The story itself rarely changes — the framing almost always does.
Outlets covering this story: LA Times, Business Insider, PBS NewsHour, NewsNation, RedState.
Left(2)
LA TimesAJul 20, 3:28 PM
A wave of student loan borrowers have entered default since pandemic-era protections lapsed
Defaults on student loans have surged across the United States, reaching record levels as borrowers struggle to keep up with payments
Business InsiderBJul 21, 9:15 AM
Student-loan borrowers are taking on debt they can't pay off. There's a renewed push to prevent that.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is co-leading an effort to prevent student-loan borrowers from taking on unmanageable debt. Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Democratic lawmakers reintroduced legislation
Center(2)
PBS NewsHourAJul 20, 8:45 PM
A wave of student loan borrowers have entered default since pandemic-era protections lapsed
Today, around 9.5 million people — 1 in 5 federal student loan borrowers — are in default, meaning they are more than nine months behind on their payments.
NewsNationBJul 21, 10:45 AM
Student loan defaults have surged in record-breaking debt crisis
More than 9 million borrowers are behind on payments, which exploded from 5.3 million in June of last year.
Right(1)
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