Colleges’ Access to Federal Financial Aid Is Now Tied to Students’ Earnings. Here’s How It Could Impact Popular Degrees (BestColleges)

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Colleges’ Access to Federal Financial Aid Is Now Tied to Students’ Earnings. Here’s How It Could Impact Popular Degrees (BestColleges)

July 08, 2025 by EdTrust

“Roxanne Garza, director of higher education policy at EdTrust, told BestColleges she worries about the impact the Senate’s proposal would have on necessary industries that historically don’t pay well. For example, could the earnings threshold unduly impact teacher education or social work programs?

“These are the fields that are definitely high value and in high demand,” Garza said, “but, for a variety of reasons, we as a society have decided we are not going to pay these people as well as they should be paid.”

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