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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Conservatives are to blame for student loan forgiveness not being enacted. By the way, his backup plan is a huge step, despite conservatives attempts to make students suffer. You will still being paying very little in loan repayments, and in some cases absolutely nothing (depending on income). I don’t know how this is being so over-looked, but it’s still a huge win.

    (From the official whitehouse website)

    Borrowers will only pay a maximum of 5% of discretionary income monthly.

    Raise the amount of income that is considered non-discretionary income and therefore is protected from repayment, guaranteeing that no borrower earning under 225% of the federal poverty level—about the annual equivalent of a $15 minimum wage for a single borrower—will have to make a monthly payment under this plan.

    Forgive loan balances after 10 years of payments, instead of 20 years, for borrowers with original loan balances of $12,000 or less. The Department estimates that this reform will allow nearly all community college borrowers to be debt-free within 10 years.

    Not charge borrowers with unpaid monthly interest, so that unlike other existing income-driven repayment plans, no borrower’s loan balance will grow as long as they make their monthly payments—even when that monthly payment is $0 because their income is low.














  • Friendly reminder: If you aren’t fighting conservatism, you aren’t fighting climate change.

    We can still mitigate the effects of manmade global warming if we act right away. Unfortunately, conservatives (including neo-liberals) are hell-bent on preventing effective action from being taken. They are paid by corporations to protect corporate interests, even when it will result in billions of deaths.

    If we can somehow marginalize and defeat conservatives in the U.S., we might be able to influence other nations to follow along in making large-scale changes. Fighting conservatism is how you can fight climate change.