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Student Loans, A Story In Many Parts

February 23, 2024
How did Biden manage to forgive another $1.2 billion in student loans?
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The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it is canceling another $1.2 billion in student loans for 153,000 people. A total of 3.9 million borrowers have now been given relief, a “Biden clapback” after the Supreme...
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Hey, did you hear about Biden's,
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loan forgiveness thing that's going on?
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No. Well, I mean,
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I've heard of it but it keeps going back and forth,
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back and forth. Exactly.
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Well, it sounds like it's back again for good because,
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well, Puerto, see.
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So originally, like you said,
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it was back and forth right after the Supreme Court blocked Biden's
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you know,
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forgiveness plan for student debt.
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his administration explored other alternatives to kind of bring it
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back. Right. And it sounds like we have a success
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story in that here and it sounds like their plan is gonna
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work. So essentially his team wi 100 $38 billion for nearly
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4 million people. Right?
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And with the you save plan,
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if someone borrowed less than 12 K for college,
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they can get it all forgiven within 10 years of payments.
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But how like, how can you tell if you're eligible?
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Because I know some people like that.
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I, I talked to some friends of mine and they're like
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oh, no,
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but I'm not eligible.
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But like, how can you tell?
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So to find out if you're eligible,
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you actually receiving a email from President Biden himself,
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maybe not him but his team,
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right, letting you know,
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hey, you're eligible for this new safe plan.
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And it's funny because,
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it seems a little more low key and his team
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is worried that people aren't gonna know that,
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hey, he's doing this dope stuff for you guys as you
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know, it's a,
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you know, election year.
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So all the, you know,
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he's all the brownie points,
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I think. Yes.
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Yes, I agree.
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I think if he does this,
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he'll definitely be in a little more of the good graces,
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you know, with,
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with, with people that went to college and that need the
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help. We'll just have to see.
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Hopefully this isn't, it is all wishy wash in the,
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in the past, but hopefully this moves forward because it kind
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of sucks to, you know.
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Oh, we're doing it.
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We're not, we're doing it.
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We're not, you know,
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kind of getting them excited to the point where you don't believe
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it anymore. Oh,
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ok. Again, we'll see.
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We'll keep you posted.