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>>pessim+(OP)
I hate Newsom but I think this is a good idea. Education and support should be 100% free for those in the more difficult economic situations.

>>remote+55
I don’t agree.

My parents are low middle class. We didn’t qualify for any financial aid and they were tasked with trying to find a way to send both my sister and I to college which they couldn’t afford.

So what did we do? Take out a bunch of loans. Good thing I got a decent job that can pay for them. Too bad for my sister who had a masters and is making $35k as a teacher in Tennessee which is barely more than minimum wage.

>>ecf+n7
> my sister who had a masters and is making $35k as a teacher Tennessee

If it's a public school, those loans should begin falling off after five years and be forgiven after ten [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/student-loans/teacher-student...

>>JumpCr+38
IIRC PSLF originally required not ten years of elapsed time but rather 120 sequential on-time payments in full under a qualifying repayment plan, where "on-time" was determined by the loan servicer. And you had to keep working beyond that time until the application was approved (most were rejected) and processed (probably as quickly as government departments usually operate.)

Loan servicers had every incentive to thwart this by declaring payments late or incomplete, steering borrowers into forbearance or non-qualifying repayment plans, etc.

As you can imagine, fewer than 1% of applicants successfully had their loans discharged.

They've been trying to fix things since the pandemic for people who consolidate to a federal direct loan.