Brian Lehrer Weekend: Student Loans; Campsickness; Sibling Relationships
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 26 August 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.
New York Times finance reporter Stacy Cowley unpacks changes to the student loan repayment system (First) | On the sadness of returning home from summer camp (Starts at 29:25) | The nature—and the beauty—of sibling relationships (Starts at 47:50)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lair here. Up next, Brian Lair Weekend, three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:04.8 | Package Together, for you to listen to on the weekend. So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the |
| 0:09.5 | radio Monday at 10 a.m. on WNYC and WNYC.org It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Welcome back everybody. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm Bridget Bergen, filling in for Brian today. And now something that's probably been on the |
| 0:40.8 | minds of many people, student loans. For the past three years, federal student loan borrowers |
| 0:48.6 | haven't had to make payments on their loans. And a few weeks, that's changing. Payments are due |
| 0:54.8 | again at the beginning of October. And while President Biden's loan forgiveness plan was struck |
| 1:00.4 | down by the Supreme Court at the end of June, his administration has implemented other changes to |
| 1:06.2 | the student loan repayment system that borrowers should be aware of. Here to take us through those |
| 1:12.4 | changes is Stacy Cowley, a finance reporter at the New York Times. Stacy, welcome back to the show. |
| 1:19.5 | Hi, thanks for having me. And listeners, I want to hear from you. Are you going to have to start |
| 1:25.6 | making payments on your student loans again? Do you have questions about it? Concerns? What impact will |
| 1:32.0 | your loan payments have on your finances? We were just before the break talking about evictions. Are |
| 1:37.3 | you worried about paying your rent now that your loan payments are restarting? Give us a call. Tell |
| 1:42.4 | us what you tell us what you're going through and ask your questions. The number is 212433 WNYC. That's |
| 1:51.2 | 212433 9692. You can also text us at that number and we may use your text on air. |
| 1:59.8 | Stacy, I want to start by asking for people who aren't familiar. Can you outline who the players are |
| 2:06.2 | when it comes to student loans and how the system works? Sure. So the federal government is the |
| 2:12.9 | biggest lender for Americans who buy or go for college to college. The Education Department |
| 2:17.6 | directly makes these loans. So roughly 45 million people owe a combined total of 1.6 trillion |
| 2:24.8 | in federal student loan debts. Yep. And since the pandemic, that debt's been on pause. Starting in |
| 2:31.7 | March 2020 under the Trump administration and then continuing all the way through till now |
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