• GiddyGap@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    4 months ago

    there is zero indication current policy will be adjusted in any meaningful way to to provide any relief for working people.

    Just a reminder that Biden has been working overtime to provide student debt relief the entire time he’s been in office. Republicans have been working overtime to block it.

    Student debt shouldn’t even exist. We need more education, not less.

    • Krauerking@lemy.lol
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      4 months ago

      Using existing means to cancel fraudulent loans for non accredited schools that went under or people who were already supposed to have their loans forgiven by standing law but hadn’t because people like literally Joe Biden have given the keys to the kingdom to the business that want to make money more and have been going unpunished for screwing over the general populace.

      They aren’t real actually helpful policies it’s minor enforcement of things that he and others of the major parties have ignored being broken for the bank accounts of their donors.

    • ealoe@ani.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      4 months ago

      Student debt relief without a reduction in prices is just funneling money to colleges with extra steps. It is an important step, Biden should be doing it, but it needs to be accompanied by serious consumer protections and price controls applied to colleges.

      • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        Sure, college education should just be a part of the regular public education system like it is in Europe. More education is a boon for the individual, society, and the economy.

        • ealoe@ani.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 months ago

          That would be good, private colleges could still exist but they’d have to compete with free college so the prices would have to come down and the value come up, a win for the consumer either way. It would be expensive but an important investment in our future.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      4 months ago

      Which is not an adjustment in policy in any meaningful way.

      If regulation was being drawn up to control pricing of higher education, then we could talk.

    • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      4 months ago

      Biden has been working overtime to provide student debt relief the entire time he’s been in office

      Biden could sign an executive order right now forgiving all government-backed student loans. He doesn’t need to work overtime on this, he could literally hand-write it and sign it in like five minutes.

      • GiddyGap@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        4 months ago

        I believe he actually did a blanket forgiveness, and the conservative majority of the Supreme Court struck it down.

    • sunzu@kbin.run
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      13
      ·
      4 months ago

      Good for 100k people… Thanks daddy

      For the remainder: beatings will continue until morale improves.