Utah is the state with the lowest average student debt and proportion of students with debt, so it begs the question, "for those Utahns that do have student debt, how do they feel about loan forgiveness?"

The Biden administration’s forgiveness plan will relieve $10,000 of federal student loan debt for borrowers who are earning less than $125,000 and up to $20,000 for those who went to college on Pell grants.

A new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll regarding President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan reflects how some citizens of the beehive state feel about the program, and it's not an overall positive reaction — though not necessarily overall negative, either.

The poll surveyed 815 registered Utah voters last month and more than half of respondents said they disagree with the plan.

Here’s what Utah voters see as the most important issue for choosing a candidate in the midterm election

As the senate campaign heats up in Utah, people are looking to cast their vote based on their candidate's stances on various issues, chief among them the economy.

A Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll asked voters to pick the issues that would influence their choice of candidate. Out of nine options, economy polled the highest, followed by views on the role of the federal government.

This poll comes as voters are increasingly divided and our economy hurtles towards a recession.

Read more about what other issues Utah voters prioritize.

More in Politics:

• Where the candidates for Utah’s 3rd Congressional District disagree on abortion, transgender girls sports and marijuana (Deseret News)

• First scores released for new Dignity Index for Utah's federal candidates (KSL-TV)

• Voter turnout will make or break the Rep. Phil Lyman vs. Davina Smith race (KUER)

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• Are Republicans more likely to die from COVID-19 than Democrats? Here’s what researchers found (Deseret News)

• Could omicron subvariant BQ.1.1 render COVID drugs useless? (Deseret News)

Faith:

• ‘The Chosen’: See 30 photos from a tour and learn about the show’s new Texas set (Deseret News)

• For the first time, two women called to serve with Church’s Military Advisory Committee (Church News)

Environment:

• Opinion: What Romney had to say about Democrat climate policies? ‘Straightening deck chairs on the Titanic’ (Deseret News)

• All your questions about the shrinking Great Salt Lake, answered (by a brine shrimp!) (KUER)

Education:

• Experts at UVU summit say mental health resources are vital in education (KSL.com)

• Opinion: The problems with an Orem-only school district (Deseret News)

Northern Utah:

• Jail ordered for man who exposed himself, taped explicit images on cars at USU (KSL.com)

• Horse returns home after lost, running with wild mustangs for 8 years in northern Utah (KUTV)

Wasatch Front:

• Could upside-down dental records tie '83 Utah cold case killing to missing Provo teen? (KSL.com)

• Immigrant family saved from homelessness, receives help remodeling house (KSL.com)

Southern Utah:

• Jury deliberating case of animal activists charged with taking pigs from Utah farm (KSL.com)

• Holiday weekend drivers experiencing long delays in both directions on I-15 near Beaver Dam (St. George News)

The West:

• Utah boasts 7 of the top 20 resorts in the Mountain West, new Condé Nast survey says (Deseret News)

• Vortices, vampires and volcanoes: My fascination with the Pacific Northwest (Deseret News)

The Nation:

• The most ‘underreported’ factor influencing housing market, according to Calculated Risk (Deseret News)

• The Justice Department's sex trafficking investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz seems stalled, attorneys say (NBC News)

The World:

• Ebola is spreading in Uganda (Deseret News)

• Thai nursery attack: The story of the three-year-old survivor (BBC News)

Sports:

• Utah Jazz are unique in that they are having to build chemistry from the ground up (Deseret News)

• There is reportedly some conference realignment on the horizon (Deseret News)