The federal government's role in causing and fixing the student debt crisis
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
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🗓️ 2 May 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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The Biden Administration has delayed the restart of student loan repayments. We discuss the federal government's role in causing and fixing the problem of high student loan debt. Josh Mitchell and Beth Akers join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 0:00.0 | Last month, the Biden administration extended the federal pause on student loan repayments |
| 0:15.9 | for a fourth time. |
| 0:18.3 | Repayments that were supposed to restart yesterday may first now won't kick in for another |
| 0:22.6 | four months until August 31st. |
| 0:26.1 | On the meantime, on Thursday, President Biden gave the clearest indication yet that |
| 0:31.9 | he's strongly considering another boon for borrowers, who also happened to be voters. |
| 0:38.2 | I am considering dealing with some debt reduction. |
| 0:42.6 | I am not considering $50,000 debt reduction, but I'm in the process of taking a hard look |
| 0:48.6 | at whether or not there are going to be additional debt forgiveness. |
| 0:53.3 | And I'll have an answer on that and there's a couple weeks here. |
| 1:00.9 | This is on point. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm Megna Chacrabardi. |
| 1:03.5 | Bloomberg is reporting that the Biden administration is considering wiping out $10,000 in student |
| 1:08.6 | loan debt per person via executive action. |
| 1:12.0 | The Washington Post recently reported that the administration is looking at limiting |
| 1:15.6 | relief to lower and middle income earners. |
| 1:18.4 | While it was told, it could result in a cancellation of roughly $245 billion in student loan |
| 1:23.6 | debt, that's out of the $1.7 trillion of debt collectively owed now. |
| 1:30.5 | Okay, we could spend the hour debating whether or not cancellation is a good idea, who should |
| 1:35.8 | qualify, how much should be canceled, etc, etc, etc. |
| 1:39.1 | And we have actually done that before on this show. |
| 1:42.3 | But today, we're going to talk about something different. |
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