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Aug 31, 2022 1 hr 5 min

Fraught and Dubious: Student Debt Cancellation

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To unlock exclusive content, visit: https://politicology.com/plus Lanae Erickson (Senior Vice President for Social Policy, Education & Politics at Third Way) joins host Ron Steslow to discuss President Biden’s executive order canceling student loans (02:07) Biden’s student loan cancellation plan (12:29) How canceling student loans could impact inflation (17:20) What this could mean for future tuition hikes (26:10) How it could impact non-college educated voters (30:23) The legal problems with canceling student loans (39:55) The Major Questions Doctrine (43:58) The use of emergency powers in non-emergent situations (48:53) The underlying problems in higher education and what lawmakers can do to solve these problems You should read Lanae’s Medium Piece: https://bit.ly/3cp6jg0 Follow Lanae and Ron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LanaeErickson https://twitter.com/RonSteslow

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