'Death Should Not Be the Only Relief': Seniors Lead Their First Action Against Student Debt | Common Dreams
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Borrowers over 50 are the fastest-growing demographic of student debtors, and, for the first time in history, some of them are calling on the Biden-Harris administration to take advantage of federal regulations that empower the Department of Education to cancel debt based on age.
  • @[email protected]
    58•2 days ago

    former U.S. President Ronald Reagan had pushed for the current student loan system in order to make it more difficult for working-class Americans to attend university as a backlash to campus protests in the 1960s and 70s.

    Americas Margret Thatcher. i.e. just, the worst person.

    • @gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      28•2 days ago

      Don’t forget how he and his administration specifically ignored the AIDS epidemic in the 80s

      • @[email protected]English
        23•2 days ago

        And killed things like the Fairness Doctrine and opened the doors for Faux News and our modern “news” landscape.