
Joe Biden’s Student Debt Plan Didn’t Have to Be Such a Disaster
If the Supreme Court strikes down Joe Biden’s proposed student debt cancellation plan tomorrow, the president has other, smarter options to relieve student debtors.
Eleni Schirmer is a scholar, writer, and activist. She works as a postdoc at Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre and as a research associate with the Future of Finance Initiative at UCLA’s Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.
If the Supreme Court strikes down Joe Biden’s proposed student debt cancellation plan tomorrow, the president has other, smarter options to relieve student debtors.
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