Obama’s student loan rules are denying blacks in disproportionate numbers
The Obama administration’s rules for approving student loans are causing a disproportionately large number of blacks to be denied because of blemished credit histories.Courtland Milloy, my colleague and a veteran local columnist at The Washington Post, has written an important and powerful piece on this subject, titled “Obama administration delivers ‘a nasty surprise’ to black college students, parents,” which you can read here.
Milloy writes:
“We’re getting calls and e-mails from parents, at least two and three a day, saying the denial of their student loans is a disaster,” said Johnny Taylor, president of the Washington-based Thurgood Marshall College Fund. “You have black students from low-income households about to enter college or already there and pressing towards graduation, persisting just as Obama urged them to do, only to have his