President Biden announced Friday that his administration is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 borrowers, marking the latest round of debt cancellation since the Supreme Court voided the president’s student loan forgiveness program.
Mr. Biden said that of the borrowers who can receive relief, nearly 44,000 are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others who are eligible for forgiveness after working 10 years of public service. Almost 30,000 of those who will have their debt wiped clean have been repaying their loans for at least 20 years, but did not get the relief they earned through income-based plans, the president said.
With the latest round of student loan forgiveness, more than 3.7 million Americans have had their debt erased under the Biden administration, Mr. Biden said.
You didn’t read the article you’re replying to, did you? Biden tried to forgive student debt for all Americans; SCOTUS shot it down. That was around the middle of last year, and Biden has been having to eke out student loan forgiveness in whatever ways he can since then. I don’t know that Americans are gonna see student loan debt forgiveness or any other serious and free social support on the scale you want until there is a reckoning with the English Poor Law mentality.