Will the president cancel student debt?

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, an economist, and a student all weigh in on what to do — or not — about student debt, in this first episode in our occasional series about the policy challenges that President Biden might face during his first year in office.

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0:17.4	Allison here.
0:18.4	This week I am so excited for you to hear the first in an ongoing series of episodes you
0:23.2	can expect from can you do that over the course of 2021.
0:27.2	Following this first year of the Biden presidency, we'll be taking time to explore some of the
0:31.9	bigger policy challenges that his administration faces, issues that predate the pandemic and
0:36.7	remain on the minds of many Americans.
0:39.6	We'll tackle one of these larger structural issues at a time, sporadically throughout
0:44.2	the year.
0:45.2	We're calling this series Year One, the Issues.
0:48.4	Here's the first episode in that series hosted by one of our show's producers Arjun Singh.
0:53.2	When he's searched to uncover a better understanding of our nation's huge amount of student loan
0:57.5	debt and how much the president can or should do about it, Arjun talks to students, Washington
1:03.0	Post reporters, and economist and Senator Elizabeth Warren.
1:07.1	Here's the show.
1:11.3	On a 60 degree day in May of 1965, Joe Biden graduated from the University of Delaware.
1:18.6	At the time, the United States was about to ramp up its involvement in one of the worst
1:22.7	wars of the nation's history.
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