This doesn’t fix everything, but perfection is the enemy of progress. This is worth celebrating if you care about non-wealthy Americans.
In the face of overzealous judicial rulings and zero help from Congress, this policy helps over 800,000 struggling, older Americans resolve long standing debt that they made payments on for 20 or 25 years.
These aren’t free loaders or wealthy individuals. Nor are they committing fraud to accept disaster loans aimed at keeping paychecks afloat.
They are former students. That’s it. Something that the US covers for K-12th grade as one of its earliest ground-breaking policies. The rest of the developed world took that through college, the US decided to create a bloated system of indentured servitude instead.
No, this doesn’t stop new borrowers from taking on loans. And it doesn’t stop education providers from overcharging. These are real problems that deserve attention.
But it is still a step showing that at least some federal officials care to try to resolve the issues plaguing some of those who did nothing more than try to improve their situation and gain valuable training with far reaching benefits.
Really disingenuous to even use the word freeloader In a conversation about student loans. Wanting an education isn’t freeloading.
GI Bill students still taking loans to get through school, while working full time. Source? Am one. It’s absolutely outrageous, the cost of both school and living.
“On Day One of my administration, I promised to fight for hardworking families and to fix problems in the student loan system that have been failing borrowers for too long,” Biden said in a statement.
The system itself hasn’t been fixed and will continue to fail current and future students.
Next stop, free education.
But how will we pay the poor, starving admins?!
Education will never be zero cost but it can be zero price.
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We all benefit when everyone has access to higher education.
Note that Biden, for the second time on student debt, acted unilaterally.
He doesn’t need Congress to discharge all student debt.
