September 2, 2005

Pew Trusts to Study Students' Debt

By ANNE K. WALTERS

The Pew Charitable Trusts will spend $3.5-million studying students' college-loan debt and looking for ways to shrink it, Pew officials said in August. The Pew program, called the Partnership to Reduce the Burden of Student Debt, will spend two years studying the issue, according to a statement released by the organization.

Pew hopes to work with students, educators, and others to draw attention to the debt issue, and to study whether current levels of federal spending could do more

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