Key Points
US President Joe Biden on Friday (local time) announced student debt cancellation of nearly $5 billion for an additional 74,000 borrowers, including more than half who earned forgiveness after 10 years of public service as teachers, nurses and firefighters...
The White House announcement brings the total loan forgiveness approved by the Biden-Harris administration to $136.6 billion for more than 3.7 million Americans.. Nearly 44,000 of the borrowers approved for relief are those with a decade of public service, with close to 30,000 people who have been repaying their loans for at least 20 years but never got the relief through income-driven repayment plans...
Biden vowed to continue working to deliver student debt relief to as many borrowers as possible in the wake of the Supreme Courts June 30 ruling blocking his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt...
The figure represents an increase of nearly $17 billion in the outstanding loan balance and almost 600,000 in the number of student loan recipients since last year, it said.. Progressive voters, who are part of the coalition that helped elect Biden in 2020, long pressed the White House to address student loan debt, and the issue remains high on the agenda of younger voters, many of whom have concerns about Biden's foreign policy on the war in Gaza and fault him for not achieving greater debt forgiveness...
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