Statement from President Joe Biden on Early Student Debt Cancellation for Borrowers Enrolled in SAVE | The White House
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Starting next month, borrowers enrolled in SAVE who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately.
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Yes, it effectively helps people who went to community college and wound up in a low-income job or disabled.
For those people it'll be a pretty high impact thing, so that's really nice!
As long as Democrats keep trying and this isn't a "we fixed everything forever now shut up" announcement, I'll hold my peace on this. At least until they show the first sign of letting up.
Right. Use this as moving the line to the next step. If this much help is palatable to the ones who typically object to doing things for those in need, then maybe chipping away at something else will be too. It's better than trying to help most everyone and getting shot down.
And it totally sucks that we live in a world where we have to play that kind of game to get anything.
This is what we can do despite the obstruction of the incrementalist wing of the party, not out of some triumph on their part.
Next step: several states are making progress on free community college or even two years at public universities. Hopefully we can do something at the federal level too, so everyone can get two years of college debt free
In my experience, when something happens at the state level such as cannabis legalization, increased minimum wage, legal abortion, etc., we see a "got mine, fuck you" attitude from the Blue State Eloi that get the benefit toward the Red State Morlocks that don't. Why would an Eloi State senator stick his neck out to get a benefit his constituents already have for some contemptible flyover Morlock? Advances for blue states make nationwide advances less likely, and nationwide advances are the only hope anyone in a red state has.
Gone are the days when we can do something like we did with gay marriage when the states can do the right thing and get the Supreme Court to equalize the right thing nationwide by applying the 14th Amendment.