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#Bestof2022: #POTUS:: Student Loan forgiveness and its discontents. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution..

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#Bestof2022: #POTUS:: Student Loan forgiveness and its discontents. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution..
https://www.hoover.org/research/student-debt-cancellation-constitutionally-infirm

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0:31.0

Student loan relief for borrowers who need it most is a fact sheet that President Biden has

0:39.2

recently made available to people puzzling about the decision by the president.

0:44.8

So far, not vouchsafed by Congress, however the debate continues, about his intention

0:52.0

to propose loan forgiveness for the Department of Education

0:56.7

two pieces, $20,000 for debt relief to Pell Grant recipients, undergraduates with exceptional financial needs, for example, and 10,000

1:06.4

for other students.

1:08.3

And there are limits to this program.

1:10.1

However, the program itself is something to measure on the basis of its authority.

1:16.8

I welcome Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution, a senior fellow.

1:20.8

He teaches law at the at NYU and the Chicago and University of

1:25.6

Chicago writing most recently at defining ideas about the

1:30.3

constitutionality or lack of to the presidential decision so far.

1:35.6

Richard, a very good day to you, thank you very much and in your essay you cite a metaphor that I immediately stopped and thought who came up with

1:45.1

this it goes like this you denied hide you do not hide an elephant in a mouse hole

1:50.9

whose idea is that good evening to you Richard.

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