What Next - Will SCOTUS Kill Student Loan Relief?
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
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Summary
President Biden’s student loan debt relief plan goes before the Supreme Court this week. Though the court’s conservative majority seems opposed to the program, debt-relief detractors are struggling to answer a major question: who does this program harm?
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Mark Joseph Stern, Slate senior writer covering the courts
Alice Turner, hospital pharmacist and compounder
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| 0:00.0 | Alice, can you tell me about the last time you checked out the balance of your student |
| 0:11.8 | loans? |
| 0:12.8 | A couple days ago. |
| 0:17.0 | How regularly are you checking? |
| 0:19.0 | Um, quite often actually. |
| 0:22.0 | Alice Turner lives in Atlanta, and I do not think it's an overstatement to say her life |
| 0:27.3 | has been reshaped completely by student debt. |
| 0:32.8 | What's the number, if I might ask? |
| 0:35.4 | Like what's the big number? |
| 0:38.5 | At the moment, it's 48,258, and the last I look, you know, $48,000, $48,000, yeah. |
| 0:46.8 | What do you see in a number like that? |
| 0:49.7 | What do you think? |
| 0:51.3 | Um, I think we got work to do. |
| 0:55.1 | It bears mention that I started this at a high of 69,000, you know, it's, it's about |
| 1:01.0 | staying the course, you know, for me, honestly, I'm just like, well, I remind myself that |
| 1:06.4 | it has been higher, and then I've just got more to go. |
| 1:10.7 | The story of Alice's debt is pretty simple. |
| 1:13.5 | She chose a college she loved, and then quickly realized just how expensive it was. |
| 1:19.6 | A dorm room, a meal plan, all of it added up. |
| 1:24.0 | She tried transferring to save money, but the debt kept coming. |
| 1:29.0 | She ended up dropping out in her second to last semester. |
| 1:32.2 | She got an associate's degree, started working in a hospital pharmacy. |
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