This.  Like...the anecdote is almost a parody of the conservative argument against any loan forgiveness more than a story that makes me think this was too small. 

Also....wouldn’t her mandatory minimum payment go down under this-- at least for her undergrad? 

If you don’t have a big salary you get up to 20k instant forgiveness (depending on the make up of your loan), repayment is capped at 5% of monthly income (for undergrad loans) and you get more of the payments applied to principle-- it’s not nothing.

And it actually might knock out more than that-- we need to see the fine print but that “up to 20k for Pell Grants” is huge for low income borrowers whose loans (assuming they didn’t go to a private college or out of state) will likely be primarily Pell Grants. 

Regardless of income the 5% cap applies— and is pretty fucking huge.

Honestly, this is pretty great and the insistence among some of the left to shit on it is pretty much identical to the same reaction from similar segments when the ACA was passed.

Um....Kansas literally elected a Democratic Governor in large part because of how much even ostensible Republicans value public education in the state. 

I know y’all are generally against crediting PP vs. Abortion Funds and Independent Providers but this campaign really, really highlights the impact that the organizing and campaign financing wings (the c4 and 527 segments) have in a way that’s unmatched by any “peer” competitor-- both the Ballot Committee itself (and…

I mean what they (the Russians) want Biden to do is let them conquer and then commit mass murder in Ukraine. Outside of that what they clearly want is for us to release/exchange an arms dealer with the nom de guerre “The Merchant of Death”.    I get her wife’s POV but......

That’d be my suspicion given that the author noted that a provider was rotating between those states.

It’s an issue everywhere but especially in states that require a physician to induce/perform-- there’s just not a huge amount of providers total at this point. 

Out of curiosity, what’s the plan to get candidates who aren’t electable into office— win due to low turnout? Dictatorship?

By “the people” the author clearly meant “younger white people”. The ironic thing is that most of the far left candidates do better the more an urban area is gentrified when they’re the very people railing against gentrification. 

I mean....I’d assume not, they seem to both be in the “detoxify yourself via crystals and mud” camp

Every time this relationship comes up, I’m forced to remind myself that Rodgers is one of the just as stupid “antivax but from the left” people-- and then there relationship makes way, way more sense (assuming it was real). 

Obviously the pay levels are different (though less than you’d think-- especially for folx who signed up in the last two decades and with a substantially higher entry cost- basically either military service or a really expensive time building hours) but it’s the same for pilots-- they’re only paid for actual “cockpit”…

The only thing I can compare the complete disappearance of “Forever War” and Drone Strike complaints to among the left-- which, putatively had these as issues of major concern (at least when they hit Obama with them, for some of them (Greenwald, Tracey, et al they ‘mysteriously’ quit being issues in early 2017 only to…

I’m sorry Joe Biden isn’t a wizard and can’t magically grant all of your wishes. 

There’s no margin for “punishing Dems who get out of line” at least not in the Senate.

I think a big, big part of it is to divorce public and private loans-- Public loans may be able to be forgiven, I can’t really see what the Admin can do about private loans without it having pretty significant secondary consequences (i.e. Banks starting extend loans only to students they think will pay them back). 

Also...when it comes down to it...what did Trump actually achieve? Seriously of his big campaign themes what got down— a few miles of wall? a failed attempt to repeal the ACA? Because his longest lasting legacy item (other than historical embarrassment and lowering the bar for the Presidency) is SCOTUS and that’s…

You mean like Dems have done on bills ranging from the Women’s Health Protection Act (which would have among other things effectively codified Roe) to the Green New Deal (which frankly wasn’t popular), etc?

Because I don’t see a ton of voters giving them credit for trying and failing on those?