Forgiving College Debt through Service

Professor Elizabeth Warren, Professor Sandy Baum, and Ganesh Sitaraman, a Harvard 3L, advocate in a new article for a program they call "Service Pays" to allow students to work off student college debt through public service.  The short article is: Service Pays: Creating Opportunities by Linking College with Public Service, 1 Harv. L. & Pol'y R. 127 (2007).  The proposal opts for a universal (it would be available to all regardless of economic background), rather than targeted, approach and is aimed primarily at encouraging public service with secondary effects on poor students.  The Harvard press release is here. 

-E.R. erosser@wcl.american.edu