The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would forgive an additional $4.8 billion in student loan debt, for 80,300 borrowers.
The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would forgive an additional $4.8 billion in student loan debt, for 80,300 borrowers.
The relief is a result of the U.S. Department of Education’s fixes to its income-driven repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
“Before President Biden took office, it was virtually impossible for eligible borrowers to access the student debt relief they rightfully earned,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “This level of debt relief is unparalleled and we have no intention of slowing down.”
It's socialism! And socialism is bad, in case we weren't clear on that. Under socialism, healthcare doesn't work, infrastructure crumbles, power and money is concentrated among a few oligarchs, people can't afford to pay for rent or food, crime and corruption is rampant, police systematically abuse their powers, the courts are overwhelmed, prisons are overcrowded, there's violence in the streets, and you don't have any real voice and your vote doesn't matter.
How would you like living under THOSE conditions, huh? Exactly. Vote R!
Those loans weren't really presented as loans through. It was literally "hey if you meet the requirements take this money and you won't have to pay it back". My small nonprofit got about $56k total and it was really helpful with all the restrictions they were mandating.
I don't get why its only companies that deserve a hand. The amount of wastef life and time and effort do to student loans is beyond unproductive and punitive
It's not referring to the blanket partial forgiveness that got blocked by the SC for made up reasons. This is about the longstanding forgiveness programs that had huge backlogs of applicants that the admin is now working through. It's additional people being approved (and the sum of their debt), not additional relief for everyone.
Read: it's an easy "win" to help with the election where they can trick people into thinking they did part of the original plan as opposed to finally working on something they already promised in the past. Fucking politics man...
I don't even have a dog in this fight, I never went to college because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and didn't want to have a boatload of loans that went to nothing. IM ONLY SLIGHTLY BITTER ABOUT THAT! Lol Still happy people are getting some relief though.
Sure, but remember, he is an impotent old man who gets nothing done but also somehow runs a shadow conspiracy centered around Pizza Hut!
At least that's the mainstream story and we're DEFINITELY sticking with it!