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In a letter, 36 civil rights organizations called on Biden to cancel $50,000 in student debt per person.
The letter said the student debt burden falls disproportionately on women and Black and Latino borrowers.
They want Biden to extend debt cancelation to all borrowers, including those with private loans.
The American student-debt problem encompasses 45 million people with a combined $1.7 trillion of debt, and much of the burden falls on communities of color. Civil-rights organizations want President Joe Biden to change that by canceling $50,000 in student debt per person.
On Monday, 36 civil rights organizations, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released civil rights principles for student debt cancelation in an effort to encourage the Biden administration to act on racial, gender, disability, and wealth disparities in the country. They said these disparities have left borrowers "on the brink of financial devastation" simply because they sought a higher education, and the only solution is to cancel $50,000 in student debt per person.