“I always felt like I can’t trust tomorrow,” he says. “My experience has always been, something’s gonna happen, and I might not finish. I was just so driven to get it done early.”
Today Elliott is an associate professor in Kansas University’s School of Social Welfare and an author of nationally discussed research. In interviews, speeches, research papers and op-ed articles for the Kansas City Star, Politico and Inside Higher Ed, Elliott has been telling the world the perils that student loan debt poses to the financial lives of the poor and middle class, as well as the solution that might be found in lifelong student savings accounts.
