{"id":238669,"date":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/high-schoolers-think-student-loans-are-risky-and-they-re-forgoing-billions-of-dollars-in-aid"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","slug":"high-schoolers-think-student-loans-are-risky-and-they-re-forgoing-billions-of-dollars-in-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/high-schoolers-think-student-loans-are-risky-and-they-re-forgoing-billions-of-dollars-in-aid","title":{"rendered":"High schoolers think student loans are risky, and they&#8217;re forgoing billions of dollars in aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getty ImagesSign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don&#8217;t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.Many borrowers across the nation are eagerly awaiting more details about President Joe Biden&#8217;s hotly debated plan for student loan forgiveness. While such a plan could help millions of people, it won&#8217;t help current high school students, many of whom will need to take out loans to pay for college but are at the mercy of a financial aid system that feels dauntingly complex and potentially high risk. Education technology provider EverFi surveyed over 18,000 students who took an online course about financing higher education. In a pre-course survey, more than one-third of students said they would describe federal student loans as risky; that number jumped to 40% among Black and Latino students. For many students, financial aid is the only way to afford a college degree. But students are apprehensive, the risks they perceive can be real and pernicious, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don&#8217;t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations. Many borrowers across the nation are eagerly awaiting more details about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}