The Continuing Effects of Summer Heat and Student Loan Repayments

Our Body Politic

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4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Fall is on the way, and school is back in session. And THIS year, the summer heat and student loans are making big headlines. On this episode of Our Body Politic, host and creator Farai Chideya speaks with Neel Dhanesha from Heatmap who discusses the underestimated yet deadliest weather crisis - HEAT. We’re also joined by climate activist Dany Sigwalt on how to build a climate movement that includes BIPOC voices. Then co-host Karen Grigsby Bates, who is a founding member of NPR’s Code Switch team speaks with Persis Yu, the deputy executive director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, about how the most vulnerable borrowers still recovering from the effects of a pandemic will be able to meet the demands of loan repayments.

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0:37.7	our bodypolitic.com slash donate. Thanks for listening. This is Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea.
0:47.3	Fall is on the way and school is back in session. And this year, the summer heat and student
0:52.1	loans are making big headlines.
0:58.6	So sharpen those pencils because we're talking to experts about how these crises impact communities of color and what we can do about it.
1:01.9	We turned first to Hawaii.
1:04.0	President Biden landed there 13 days after the devastating fires on the island of Maui.
1:09.6	After touring the damage, he joined community members at an
1:12.5	event in the town of Lahaina. Many of you have lost family, not even sure where some are.
1:21.4	I've had a similar experience. I was 29 years old, and I got a phone call on my fire department saying they had to come home immediately.
1:30.3	There had been an accident.
1:31.7	So I have a little bit of a sense of what it's like driving, wondering what in God's name
1:36.7	is it going to be like when I get to the hospital.
1:39.2	Only worse than losing someone is not sure whether you've lost someone.
1:44.0	More than 100 people were killed and scores are still unaccounted for.
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