Feels like something my wife and I signed up for ages ago and haven’t seen a penny. Not that I find it at all surprising, but it feels like it got pretty close to actually happening…
If you aren’t from the US, how was your higher education experience?
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I don’t care if it passes SCOTUS or not. I say this as someone with current student loans, what matters most is directing that money towards public institutions to drive down tuition for students right now.
Forgiving student debt doesn’t solve the problem, it just pushes it onto the next generation. Let’s actually solve the tuition crisis first.
Making college education free is what I was thinking. We already funded public education, what one more for college/universities? Our country is mostly operated on high skill workforce, so why not make it a policy in this country?
This feeds into so many other systems as well, part of why medicine is so expensive is because of how expensive it is to become a doctor, both in sheer cost and in the barrier to entry for those less wealthy. Ditto for architects designing housing, city planners, economists, etc.
I go to a private practice doc because the mega hospitals have a 6 month wait for my needs. It costs $170 for a med check every 3 months. My doctor owns an aeroplane.
It’ll be decided by the SCOTUS sometime this month.
I live in Canada so this is my student loan experience: sign up and fill out documents for provincial student loans, received an amount that covered tuition plus a little bit of rent for the years (until graduation), and then had zero interest on the loans for the duration of the pandemic.
In 10 years if I still haven’t paid everything off, the debt will be absolved.
sighs in American
Were you notified that you were approved? The policy was challenged and is now awaiting SCOTUS decision. I think folks were expecting a decision either this Thursday or Friday, or perhaps next Thursday or Friday. We’ll see, though.
I think it’s still tied up in the courts thanks to the GOP challenging it last I heard. Admittedly I’ve not paid super close attention so some progress might’ve been made since then but that was the last news I remember reading on that.
