Organizer and anti-debt campaigner Astra Taylor explains how a Harris-Walz administration could transform Americans’ lives through debt relief, replacing the old idea of a welfare state with the idea of a “solidarity state.”
Though not nearly enough, the president’s move is a good one—and is the result of a decade-plus of activism by thousands of brave Americans.
We don’t like the word forgiveness because we don’t think student debtors did anything wrong. Your generation didn’t have to borrow like this. We’re just asking for parity.
"It's almost like the American people want government to meet the scale of the crisis," said New York Congressman Mondaire Jones.
The strikers, dubbed the “Corinthian 15” after the now-bankrupt network of for-profit schools they attended, announced the strike with a simple message directed at the Department of Education: “We owe you nothing.”
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