1ºDavid Wyatt HOW old are you?
When I was in college, working through college was not that difficult.
NOW DAYS, finding part time work that pays for $40K to $50K a year is pretty impossible, and MOST college class schedules do NOT allow for a 9 to 5 job. Much less one that pays that well.
Also, colleges have a little scam going now. Freshmen MUST LIVE ON CAMPUS, sometiems even if they live in the same town as the college or University, but dorm fees are as high as a fine apartment.
That text book they TOLD you that you HAD to buy and never used was pretty much the same price as any hardback when I was in school. Now, $400 is considered "average", and some are up to $1,000 JUST for the book. NOW, they REQUIRE laptops in many classes. The costs have changed drastically.
Going to college now days is like buying a brand new off the assembly line car EVERY YEAR, for 4 years, with NO TRADE IN VALUE and no "exclusion" for the "last" year.
2ºCharles Swartout my whole point is not that I agree or disagree with the debt forgiveness, or whether or not people should have to pay back their loans, interest included. It’s that things need to be regulated to address the lack of regulation on universities and loan services, which holds a large portion of the reason why so many are in so much debt. That’s it.
With all that’s been said, I am a teacher and will have what’s remaining of my loans, principle and interest, forgiven in a few years strictly because I teach in a title V school. It’s a shame this type of forgiveness is deemed okay but others aren’t.
3ºMy full name Zahid Rasheed
Ethnicity: Kashmiri
Immigration status
Conversation refugee/ permanent reside‘nt in New Zealand
Dob : 06:10:1995
Address: 308/6 waikumete road glen Eden Auckland 0602
Phone: 0064225823614
Email address: sardarzahid126@gmail.com
Religion: Ex Muslim
To secretary General of United Nations and those adviced me that it is internal Matter of a state and i must seek asylum or safety for me or for my family through country’s embassies , i think it’s a matter of millions of innocent kashmiris and its a matter of refugee and human rights,
I just wake up it’s 8:04 am 19th of November 2022 in New Zealand I slept at around 3 o clock last night I couldn’t slept the exact mentioned time last night,and I didn’t go out of my room I’m still in bed
just to make sure no body use vaccines and take me somewhere while I’m sleeping, because I’m disabled and I need to protect my health and safety
4ºDavid Cosme realistically it’s for the person making $30k-60k a year. A lot of us had to work full time through hs and college and still had to take out loans to get us through our programs. I have been paying well over the min pmt on my loan each month for almost 10 years now, and I still have about 10k left, why should I not get a little relief on these loans that were given out with no oversight with the expectation that I would never pay them off? How do you not see this as a step in the right direction? Take your blinders off and realize it’s actually benefiting lower middle and working class people far more than it is the extreme example you’re perpetuating above.
5ºMitchell Hubenet there is a choice between doing it or not, yes, but there isn’t a choice in HOW if they do, is my point. You do know that millions do in fact go to school for free through financial aid (which is funded by federal tax dollars paid by citizens) right? Some of which fail their classes time after time yet still receive said aid. Who deserves the right to decide the cutoff on who should qualify for “free college money” and who shouldn’t (and therefore take loans to supplement the cost) when it’s purely based on income or your parents income?
6ºI don't get what's so difficult about paying for college. I (the owner of this dog) did it 20 years ago with no debt... my niece is currently doing it with only $3500 in student loans halfway through her junior year... how's everyone else screwing it up? I mean we're not ivy league or anything, I went to one of the top civil engineering schools in the country and she's going to the best special education teaching schools in the area. I also did community college first before going to the university and I didn't have any trouble finding a job in fact I'm still at the same place that hired me out of college
7ºAmber Lynn Williams this has everything to do with the government loans. 80% of these loans are federally backed loans. The cost of education increased 30% once the government started subsidizing it. Anytime the government subsidize anything, the cost goes up. Because now the colleges have no skin in the game. They got the money they are paid the taxpayers are on the hook. Quite honestly when Obama re-wrote the 1992 college loan program, that was originally written by Clinton, he was the one that implemented that interest rate platform so that it would pay for several other federal programs including the affordable care act. The fairest way to do this is to re-amortize the loan. Give them a reasonable interest rate, all payments go retroactively back to the beginning of the loan, and then re-calculate a new loan payment going forward. It should ultimately be much less
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As Fox News first reported last month, some of the biggest names in the GOP who are considered likely or possible White House contenders will be speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s (RJC) annual leadership meeting.
The confab kicked off on Thursday night at the Venetian Hotel Resort and Casino with speeches from term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and former New Jersey governor and 2016 presidential candidate Chris Christie.
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10ºMitchell Hubenet is it not sad though to consider one person “worthy” of your tax dollars to fund their college careers strictly for the mere fact they make slightly less income than someone else who makes a bit more, yet doesn’t qualify, and may in fact end up using LESS of that money to finish their schooling? I know this is going off on a tangent, but aside from all this debt forgiveness conversation, the system as a whole is messed up in my opinion and to get angry at debt forgiveness for people who didn’t qualify for financial aid (many of which who just barely don’t qualify) while also having a system that bases free college funds off of income alone seems insensitive.