Is Student Debt Regressive?

Lony: Social scientists have come up with ways to tell powerful people that what they already think is true, even when it's not truetha. He says if we recalculate the wealth distribution that way, then it turns out that the people who have student debt have a lot more wealth. Lony: My job as an economist is to surprise people by telling them true things that are at odds with what they previously thought about how the world work.