How Greedy They Are. Un discorso sui costi della higher education negli Stati Uniti dal New Deal ai giorni nostri

On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued the decision in Biden v. Nebraska, striking down the Biden Program of student debt forgiveness. The decision reignited the debate about the cost of higher education in the U.S. This paper aims to analyze the issue from a comparative legal history perspective, combined with some methods borrowed from intersectionality. Through the lens of history, the main goal of the research is to show that the current settings of higher education costs are the product of deliberate ideological, political, economic, and legal choices that still have an asymmetrical impact on discriminated groups. In this regard, intersectionality provides an appropriate analytical framework to show how the entire legal framework of student debt in the United States represents the perpetuation of certain power structures, such as racism and class stratification, in a combination that has made and continues to make some individuals more vulnerable than others. To substantiate these claims, legal education will be examined as a case study.