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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would forgive an additional $4.8 billion in student loan debt, for 80,300 borrowers.

The relief is a result of the U.S. Department of Education’s fixes to its income-driven repayment plans and Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

“Before President Biden took office, it was virtually impossible for eligible borrowers to access the student debt relief they rightfully earned,” U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “This level of debt relief is unparalleled and we have no intention of slowing down.”

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[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 174 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Can't wait to hear the businesses who received and were forgiven for PPP "loans" bitch en masse about the unfairness of it all

Edit: nonetheless, this is good news everyone

[-] HWK_290@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago
[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In what goddamn world do they have ANY fucking standing? So silly lol, and I'm not yelling at you, just the sky with this entire conceit in mind

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

Since when do they need standing? They killed the original student loan forgiveness without having standing.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

It was bullshit then its bullshit now but they must have many executive tricks they can use to find a way to insulate it, or just pay it out and let the SCOTUS enforce their stupid ruling

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Apparently, they have standing in the current oligarchic/kleptocratic world.

[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, seriously, fuck Sue, she complains about everything!

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Sue is such a Karen.

[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Their tears sustain me. God forbid someone actually help people instead of corporations pretending to be people.

[-] Cerbero@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It’s even worse the IG thatbwas over it said that we probably lost 500 billion that we will never know where it went.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Perhaps its conjecture but I've heard many statements characterizing it as literally one of the largest wealth transfers in history

[-] Lightsong@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sometimes good news can just be good news. We don't have to be cynical about absolutely everything...

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's socialism! And socialism is bad, in case we weren't clear on that. Under socialism, healthcare doesn't work, infrastructure crumbles, power and money is concentrated among a few oligarchs, people can't afford to pay for rent or food, crime and corruption is rampant, police systematically abuse their powers, the courts are overwhelmed, prisons are overcrowded, there's violence in the streets, and you don't have any real voice and your vote doesn't matter.

How would you like living under THOSE conditions, huh? Exactly. Vote R!

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

Those loans weren't really presented as loans through. It was literally "hey if you meet the requirements take this money and you won't have to pay it back". My small nonprofit got about $56k total and it was really helpful with all the restrictions they were mandating.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I don't get why its only companies that deserve a hand. The amount of wastef life and time and effort do to student loans is beyond unproductive and punitive

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

Wait, “ an additional?” I never even got the first one because it was blocked by some asshats who think they’re more important

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not referring to the blanket partial forgiveness that got blocked by the SC for made up reasons. This is about the longstanding forgiveness programs that had huge backlogs of applicants that the admin is now working through. It's additional people being approved (and the sum of their debt), not additional relief for everyone.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 0 points 11 months ago

Read: it's an easy "win" to help with the election where they can trick people into thinking they did part of the original plan as opposed to finally working on something they already promised in the past. Fucking politics man...

I don't even have a dog in this fight, I never went to college because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and didn't want to have a boatload of loans that went to nothing. IM ONLY SLIGHTLY BITTER ABOUT THAT! Lol Still happy people are getting some relief though.

[-] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Still waiting for the ITT loans to be wiped out...

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Just looked up what an ITT loan was, holy shit you poor bastard

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Looks like they forgave people still paying off loans after 20 years. We've got 19 on ours so just missed it!

[-] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Hey you the next round ig

[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Sure, but remember, he is an impotent old man who gets nothing done but also somehow runs a shadow conspiracy centered around Pizza Hut!
At least that's the mainstream story and we're DEFINITELY sticking with it!

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