Unpaid student loans can impact Social Security benefits

  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    12% Positive

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"In terms of wiping out student debt completely, the relief plan would have the greatest impact on Black borrowers, reducing the share with debt by 10 percentage points -- from 22"
Positive
6% Conservative
"In short, student loans are not a phenomenon limited to the young."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Read:While the overall magnitude of student debt held by those 65+ is not large, the burden has been growing rapidly and is expected to be substantially higher for future beneficiaries (see Figure 1)."
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-2% Liberal
"And both current and future Black beneficiaries are more likely to hold student debt than white ones."
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-10% Liberal
"Of course, President Biden has put forth a plan for student debt relief."
Positive
10% Conservative
"Gal and Siyan also looked at the potential impact of President Biden's debt relief proposal."
Positive
0% Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In terms of wiping out student debt completely, the relief plan would have the greatest impact on Black borrowers, reducing the share with debt by 10 percentage points -- from 22% to 12% (see Figure 3).
51% : In short, student loans are not a phenomenon limited to the young.
49% :Read:While the overall magnitude of student debt held by those 65+ is not large, the burden has been growing rapidly and is expected to be substantially higher for future beneficiaries (see Figure 1).
45% : And both current and future Black beneficiaries are more likely to hold student debt than white ones.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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