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Fraught and Dubious: Student Debt Cancellation
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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
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