Gender and the 2020 Election, Who Exactly Owes All That Student Debt, and More

October 12, 2020

President Trump has had a problem with women voters since taking office, and now it seems he has a problem with men, too. William Galston writes that there’s a notable shift happening with men, and when we look back at the 2016 and 2020 races, the key point may not be women’s disaffection from Trump in 2020, but rather men’s antipathy to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

That Americans owe more than $1.5 trillion in student loans is discussed a lot—what is left out of the conversation is who owes most of that debt. Sandy Baum and Adam Looney analyze new data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, which indicates that upper-income households account for a disproportionate share of student loan debt.

Absent congressional action to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the president has turned to executive orders. Frank Thompson outlines six major ways that the administration has moved unilaterally to weaken the health care bill, from cutting ACA subsidies to insurance companies to promoting waivers to decrease ACA enrollment.

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