Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. Timothy Noah is a Washington Monthly contributing editor. He is the author of The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It.
President Ulysses S. Grant did it, and George W. Bush, and the Constitution would seem to encourage it.
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Scrapping unlimited Grad PLUS borrowing was a start. Now federal loan policy should align debt limits with what graduates in a given field are likely to earn.
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