Category: SCOTUS

800,000 Borrowers to Get Student Debt Canceled, Biden Administration Announces

Posted July 14th, 2023 at 2:03pm by Isabel Soisson

FILE – President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at left. After a series of major blows to his agenda from the Supreme Court, Biden is intent on making sure it is voters — not the justices of the high court — who have the final say. “Republicans snatched away the hope that they were given,” Biden said hours after the high court overturned his plan to forgive a majority of the country’s federal student loans. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Supreme Court Takes Student Debt Relief Away From 43 Million Americans

Posted June 30th, 2023 at 12:28pm by Isabel Soisson

Nationwide, more than 45 million people owe $1.6 trillion in federal loans for college, according to government data, and as many as 43 million of them stood to benefit from Biden’s cancellation program. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)