President Biden announces over 1 Million public service workers have received student debt cancellation under the Biden-Harris Administration.

If I were in charge of any of their campaigning I'd also hammer reproductive rights, weed, and healthcare. Instead it looks like the Dems are going to keep getting cornered on the economy and Israel.

If Biden told the supreme court to go fuck themselves and forgave all student loan debt they would care.

This isn’t even a drop in the bucket of the total student loan debt in this country

Idk, it feels manipulative to me. All they've done here is follow through on existing policy. I have higher standards for being impressed than doing what you're required to do, even if others before you failed to do so.

Yea, I went to a relatively cheap college. Tuition was about 8k a year when I started and 12k when I graduated, this didn't include living expenses or housing. I worked on average 30 hours a week and full time during the summers. I left with about 20k in loans. I worked and saved while living at my parents home and paid them off in about 3 years. I was lucky to be in a position to do this, all the while making less than 15 an hour.

Then a few years later when there was talk of people getting their debt forgiven, my mother says " that's not fair, you worked hard to get out of it, they should too." And I stood there in shock, thinking who cares if I worked hard to pay off my loans, it doesn't mean others should have to. I don't want others to go through what I sacrificed if they don't have to.

old people

it's ok. you can say boomers

Its really hard to be supportive and praise someone for finally plugging back in grandmas life support after they purposefully unplugged it to charge their headphones.

This is a program that existed for a very long time

7 years since the first person became eligible is a 'very long time?'

The problem with it is when it was set up, some idiot put the loan companies in charge. And thru intentional incompetence most people didn’t get forgiveness when they should and the interest kept climbing for years.

So we're just making shit up now?

The department of education made the determination of who fulfilled the criteria to have their loans forgiven. Forgiveness was never based around distributing a set amount of money, but on completeting a specific payment regiment for 10 years with a qualifying employment category.

The first year anyone was eligible for forgiveness was 2017. Do you remember who was president in 2017? Who he put in charge of the department of education? There was a deliberate effort by the Trump administration to sabatoge the program by denying approval for forgiveness on the basis of any minor technical or clerical deficiency they could come up with. Some months literally nobody got approved. Now also consider the kinds of people Davos hired for every role she could within the department. And now the kind of people they hired.

And here you sit, just another asshole blaming Biden and Democrats for mess their predecessors went out of their way to create, because they didn't clean it up instantly and perfectly.