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submitted 10 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world

Starting next month, borrowers enrolled in SAVE who took out less than $12,000 in loans and have been in repayment for 10 years will get their remaining student debt cancelled immediately.

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[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, it effectively helps people who went to community college and wound up in a low-income job or disabled.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

For those people it'll be a pretty high impact thing, so that's really nice!

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

As long as Democrats keep trying and this isn't a "we fixed everything forever now shut up" announcement, I'll hold my peace on this. At least until they show the first sign of letting up.

[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Right. Use this as moving the line to the next step. If this much help is palatable to the ones who typically object to doing things for those in need, then maybe chipping away at something else will be too. It's better than trying to help most everyone and getting shot down.

And it totally sucks that we live in a world where we have to play that kind of game to get anything.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This is what we can do despite the obstruction of the incrementalist wing of the party, not out of some triumph on their part.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Next step: several states are making progress on free community college or even two years at public universities. Hopefully we can do something at the federal level too, so everyone can get two years of college debt free

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Next step: several states are making progress on free community college or even two years at public universities.

In my experience, when something happens at the state level such as cannabis legalization, increased minimum wage, legal abortion, etc., we see a "got mine, fuck you" attitude from the Blue State Eloi that get the benefit toward the Red State Morlocks that don't. Why would an Eloi State senator stick his neck out to get a benefit his constituents already have for some contemptible flyover Morlock? Advances for blue states make nationwide advances less likely, and nationwide advances are the only hope anyone in a red state has.

Gone are the days when we can do something like we did with gay marriage when the states can do the right thing and get the Supreme Court to equalize the right thing nationwide by applying the 14th Amendment.

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