Time to talk student loan forgiveness and inflation

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Student loan relief is here. But (and this is so awkward), so is inflation, still. One of our listeners wants to know whether the government’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt will make inflation worse. Plus, we’ll take your questions on electric cars, credit scores and LeVar Burton!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“Will student loan forgiveness make inflation worse?” from Vox
“Without a Gas Tax, How Will EVs Be Charged for Road Use?” from Consumer Reports
“The secret history of ‘Y’all’: The murky origins of a legendary Southern slang word” from Salon
The “Make Me Smart” episode on our credit rating system
“The Score” from “Marketplace Tech”
“The new tech behind LeVar Burton’s crusade for child literacy” from “Marketplace Tech”

If you’ve got a question you’d like us to find the answer to, email us at [email protected] or leave a voice message at 508-U-B-SMART.

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0:00.0	Let's just go.
0:00.9	Let's just do it.
0:01.8	Let's just go.
0:03.4	Oh my gosh.
0:05.3	What a day.
0:06.0	What a day.
0:07.6	A day.
0:08.8	Welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:10.0	Everybody, where we make the day make sense.
0:12.0	I am Kai Rizzo.
0:14.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:15.2	Thank you for joining us for What Do You Want to Know Wednesday?
0:18.4	The day in the week where we answer listener questions.
0:22.5	And if you have a question about the economy or business
0:25.2	or technology or culture or any of those things that you
0:28.1	hear us talk about on this podcast, email us.
0:30.7	Would you make me smart at Marketplace.org or leave
0:32.9	some voicemail?
0:34.1	Our number is 508UB.
0:36.6	The letter U, the letter B.
0:38.1	Smart.
0:40.0	Our first question today is actually
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