Maybe you are one of the 26 million people who have applied to have their student debt reduced or eliminated entirely. You probably breathed a sigh of relief when you hit “Submit,” knowing that, in the new year, you’ll have an easier time paying rent, buying food, or maybe saving to buy a home or for retirement.
Biden Can Still Counter the Bogus Right-Wing Student Loan Lawsuits
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NPR is Not Your Friend
NPR is a problem. Good and proper leftists who read Current Affairs may already realize this. “Of course. NPR (Neoliberal Propaganda Radio) is a bastion of establishment groupthink and orthodoxy that gives cover to imperialism and corporate capitalism.” By contrast, readers on the Right who find themselves consuming Current Affairs may have an equally disdainful but entirely different critique. “Of course. NPR is an elitist liberal propaganda cult that serves as a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, is openly hostile to any conservative voices, and ought to be defunded!”
NPR is Not Your Friend
The Government has Made, not Lost Money on Student Loans.
All federally owned loans could be cancelled entirely, and the government would lose little or nothing.
The Government has Made, not Lost Money on Student Loans.
Biden administration scales back student debt relief for millions amid legal concerns
Biden administration scales back student debt relief for millions amid legal concerns
But there are significant business interests that depend on the federally guaranteed loan program — a wide range of private lenders, banks, guaranty agencies, loan servicers and investors. That industry is widely seen, both inside and outside the administration, as presenting the greatest legal risk to the debt relief program.
Many of those companies face economic losses when they lose borrowers who convert their federally guaranteed loans into new loans that are made directly by the Education Department through a process known as consolidation.
Can’t afford to lose those campaign donations!
Barack Obama Reminds Us That the Democrats Remain the More Effective evil of Imperialism
Obama’s first visit to the White House since his presidency was celebrated by the neoliberal establishment. But his true legacy should not be forgotten.
Barack Obama Reminds Us That the Democrats Remain the More Effective evil of Imperialism
Torpedo the Traitorous America Competes Act
Biden on Covid: ‘No Federal Solution’
If this is what he now thinks, then rescind OSHA’s vaccine mandate.
Biden on Covid: ‘No Federal Solution’
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More Americans have died of the virus in 2021 than in all of 2020.
President Biden may not recall what he said during a 2020 campaign debate last fall, but Americans should: “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America.” At the time the U.S. had recorded 220,000 Covid deaths.
Covid deaths this year have now surpassed the toll in 2020 with 350,000 since Inauguration Day. It would seem that Mr. Biden has done no better than Donald Trump in defeating Covid despite the benefit of vaccines, better therapies, and more clinical experience. The left politicized Covid by holding Mr. Trump responsible for a disease that was always going to be hard to defeat.
President Biden extends student loan payment freeze through May 1
President Biden extends student loan payment freeze through May 1
Whenever loan payments resume, many experts say the process will be quite messy, given so many back and forths with borrowers. Even a 2020 report from the Education Department noted the resumption of payments would be messy. Loan servicers and the federal government, the report says, will “face a heavy burden in ‘converting’ millions of borrowers to active repayment.” The transition could also be confusing to borrowers, with some “becoming delinquent, at least initially.”
US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
Advocates have pressed the Education Department to eliminate the monitoring period entirely and to provide automatic debt relief to people who the Social Security Administration already identifies as permanently disabled.
Under the new action, both demands will be met. Starting in September, the Education Department will start erasing student debt for 323,000 Americans identified in Social Security records as being permanently disabled.
Independent Media Parrots Questionable Uyghur Genocide Claims
Independent Media Parrots Questionable Uyghur Genocide Claims (Archived)
Accordingly, a survey of prominent independent outlets reveals the same US State Department narrative on China. For example, The Joe Rogan Experience, the largest podcast in the world, with approximately 200 million listeners per month, has validated the Uyghur genocide claim with Ben Shapiro. Rogan has gone even further–giving the CIA itself a platform to spook its China propaganda. Among the guilty are Steven Crowder, Dave Rubin, Reason Magazine, VICE, The Young Turks, and Democracy Now!.
Of all the above independent outlets, the most egregious purveyor of Chinese fear mongering is Tim Pool, an independent journalist who emerged into prominence during Occupy Wall Street.
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H/T: THE US STATE DEPARTMENT & INDEPENDENT MEDIA FT. JOANNE LEON EP. 163
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