Tag: student debt
Democrats urge Biden to continue pause of student loan payments
“The scheduled resumption of student loan payments in October could create a significant drag on our economic recovery.”
‘All he has to do is sign’: Group crafts executive order...
"We have no other option but to fight for debt abolition and a society where everyone has the means to live."
Civil rights groups urge Biden administration to cancel $50,000 in student...
“The $1.7 trillion student loan crisis is crushing individuals, families, and our economy, and the weight of this burden is disproportionately borne by women and Black and Latino borrowers.”
Harvard newspaper to Biden: Cancel more than $10k in student debt...
“It’s not our student debt—but we still want Biden to forgive it.”
Biden ‘can and must go big,’ say progressives urging president to...
“Far more than $10,000 in cancellation is required to provide aid that 44 million families and the economy need.”
‘Now let’s cancel them,’ demands AOC as Biden extends pause on...
“Biden can cancel all $1.7 trillion of student debt by executive order,” said The Debt Collective.
Student debt pushes to the front of Biden’s agenda
The debate over loan forgiveness is raging between parties and within them.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urges career staffers to block Biden’s agenda...
One of Biden’s promises, when he becomes president, is to forgive some of the student loan debt by providing $10,000 of student debt relief.
The upcoming battle over US student debt cancellation
President-elect Biden will be able to cancel nearly all student debt without congressional approval. If he refuses, organized debtors are preparing to strike.
The federal government owns 92% of student debt. Will Biden wipe...
lifting these financial burdens would help individual debt holders meet daily needs, reduce the racial wealth gap, and give a boost to the national economy.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.