Biden to Announce $10,000 Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
As someone who graduated with $60k + in debt, despite multiple grants and financial aid, and who currently makes under the limit... I highly appreciate this. Education is foundational to society, and I&#x27;ve experienced both university education <i>and</i> public college education enough to know that difference in quality.<p>Nothing against people who can only afford public college, but the quality is subpar -- and the fact that there <i>are</i> people who can only afford that is the problem. We really need education to be more accessible; making education expensive is, whether intentional or not, a way to keep poor people poor. Education too expensive? Welp, too bad, you&#x27;ve got to find a job that (a) doesn&#x27;t require a degree and (b) doesn&#x27;t require skills or knowledge taught in universities. It&#x27;ll probably pay less, so oh well if you were hoping to make enough money to get out of your socioeconomic hole.<p>Inb4 &quot;but you did it&quot;: I was lucky enough to have a few relatively rich cousins who would cosign loans for me, lucky enough to be given opportunities by university department heads that I wasn&#x27;t owed, and even then I almost didn&#x27;t get that degree. And still, despite all that, $60k+ in debt.<p>No one is asking for &quot;handouts&quot;. People are asking for a society in which exposure to good ideas, and guidance on how to determine which ideas are good at all, isn&#x27;t reserved for people with stuffed bank accounts or rich parents. And that&#x27;s just common sense for anyone with any empathy or hope for the future of the species.