Student Debt Promoted to Serious National Concern

From a press release in my inbox this morning:

The Pew Charitable Trusts announces the Partnership to Reduce the Burden
of Student Debt. The two-year, $3.5 million initiative joins the
Trusts-funded Retirement Security Project as part of the Trusts' focus
on issues related to family financial security...

Working with other funders and non-profit organizations, the
Partnership to Reduce the Burden of Student Debt will collaborate with
leading experts from across the nation to conduct nonpartisan research
and analysis and identify practical policy options and ways to pay for
them with current taxpayer dollars.