Episode Details

Your Heard Tell for Thursday, August the 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in by getting to the bottom of an internet image about the IRS that went viral online, but wasn't what it was made out to be, and how this is yet another example of smashing send without checking first not only makes you end up looking silly, but distracts from the real issues. We'll talk about it, plus what that tells you about people who send out such things. Our guest today is Flavia Nunez who joins us to help turn down the noise on the student loans debates over forgiveness, repayment, how the entire system of student financing really works. Flavia brings the focus back to the human aspect of an issue that has become all slogans and buzzwords, explaining from first-hand experience the pressure that is put on first time college students to take financial aid, and how that pressure is not only ramping up but an intregal part of the higher education business model. Flavia also breaksdown how the student loan issue is different for undergrad, graduate, and post-graduate students, answers the charges that the student loan system is predatory, and explains what part of the controversy comes down to personal responsibility and what is a system taking unfair advantage. Plus, Flavia explains how just forgiving student loan debt without fixing the underlying problem of the cost of higher education will not only be ineffective, but will exacerbate the problem. To round out the program, new data out about how American's are dictating their investment giving are out, and the largest distributor of charity money's numbers are very telling about how folks are giving even in these uncertain times. All that and more on this Thursday edition of Heard Tell.

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