 student loans the cost of education continues to increase often students incur so much debt that it limits their career choices in some cases it blocks them from the path of building savings and buying a home cranc supports the application of the community reinvestment act cra to private student lending read our comments to the federal reserve  see our papers on how cra impacts historically black colleges and universities  hbcus and their students  defaultcranclog0png  advocacyresearch  