Student Loans Forgiven - Who Knows What Will Happen?

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Corey Turner: It is possible that nothing will come of these lawsuits. He says the vast majority of borrowers who will qualify for this will get debt relief unless one of these lawsuits finds a sympathetic hearing in court. Turner: The people who will not are those fell borrowers. Those folks probably get the worst deal right now, he says.

President Biden’s plan to forgive billions of dollars in student debt is both historic and controversial. Now some red states are suing to block it. NPR’s Cory Turner explains.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Jillian Weinberger, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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