Nurses, physician assistants, and other health care professions are warning the Education Department that new limits on federal loans for graduate students will worsen persistent labor shortages as the agency moves closer to finalizing the changes.
The administration plans to split graduate students into two categories with different loan caps, as it implements financial aid provisions of President Donald Trump’s sweeping $3.3 trillion tax and spending law. Students in a range of health care-related programs would face more stringent limits under a proposal with a comment period ending Monday.
“At a time when we need more people in health care, ...