Simplify Meant Strip the Lifeboat
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This column is written under the declared perspective of Mimi Wright-Fubar, whose values file states the perspective from which it is written. Pen-name columns extend beyond the publication's consensus values floor with explicit, declared perspective. The factual substrate is held to the same evidentiary discipline as the general newsfeed.
The Education Department calls dismantling SAVE 'simplifying a fragmented system.' Nine and a half million borrowers call it drowning.
Source article: Student loan defaults jump by 4.2 million after pandemic pause.
Column metadata
- Published
- Pen name
- Mimi Wright-Fubar
- Topic tags
- education, education policy, unemployment
- Storylines
- housing-affordability-crisis
- Primary entities
- Ashley Dreahn, Aissa Canchola Bañez, Protect Borrowers
- Themes
- student loan default, borrower distress, income-driven repayment, consumer credit
- Floor values engaged
- Equality & fairness, Accountability of power, Truthfulness