Student Debt Forgiveness - The Politics of Debt Cancelation

Student debt forgiveness was a key platform of the democrats who ran in 20 20 burney sanders and elizabeth warren both ran presidential campaigns with a policy of over 50 thousand dollars in student debt cancellation. The republican national committee published a research piece titled byden's hand out to the rich, bailing out their student debt. In it, they write, biden's plan to cancel student loans would bail out the wealthy, worst in inflation and line the pockets of democrats and their staffs all at the expense of the working class. Some progressive groups are against debt forgiveness for the reason that it doesn't actually get at the groups that need the help most. There is another anti

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