(June 13, 2021 at 10:24 pm)Foxaire Wrote:Quote:young people are coerced into huge student-loan debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.
You could discharge your student loan debt in bankruptcy before 2005. Then Biden supported a bill making it impossible.
Quote:“Biden was one of the most powerful people who could have said no, who could have changed this. Instead he used his leadership role to limit the ability of other Democrats who had concerns and who wanted the bill softened,” said Melissa Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill specialising in bankruptcy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...5-act-2020
During the campaign he promised to help people with student loans, but recently he announced he wouldn't.
So there are people closer to home whom we can blame, not just dead authors.