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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: New graduate student loan caps imperil efforts to fill social worker shortage
Description: In Illinois and across the country, schools, hospitals and community organizations depend on social workers to function.
But there are never enough social workers to go around.
It’s one of those jobs that doesn’t pay well – and in most cases requires a master’s degree.
Now, President Donald Trump and Republicans are piling on yet another deterrent to becoming one:
Limits on how much in federal debt students can borrow to attend graduate school.
WBEZ’s Lisa Kurian Philip has the story.
HOST: DIXON