How student loan forgiveness rebuilds the economy from the middle out (with Marshall Steinbaum)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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The OMB's Income Test for for Student Debt Cancellation
Marshall: It was a political expediency but bad policy. And I should say it's also in odds with the administration's own policy just in April of this year. The ideology in this case is, I would say meritocracy, that is to say something that individuals either have control over is at least individually determined as opposed to inherited. Marshall: This idea that the higher education is not serving that function in fact it has nothing to do with merit, certainly not sufficient.
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