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26 October
6:34 pm

In the Obama administration, he federalized student loans, and so virtually all student loans then started coming from government, which caused higher education prices to balloon.

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Mark Baisley, at Colorado U.S. Senate General Election Debate (9NEWS)

6:34 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific historical policy claim attributing federalization of student loans to Obama and causally linking it to rising tuition prices — both the policy claim and the causal claim are verifiable.
What we foundThe Obama administration did federalize student loans in 2010 and federal loans now make up ~92% of all student debt, but the causal claim that this specific policy caused higher education prices to 'balloon' is overstated — research on the link between federal loan availability and tuition inflation is genuinely mixed, predates the 2010 federalization, and does not establish the clean causation the claim implies.
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