{"id":784176,"date":"2022-08-30T06:05:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=253733"},"modified":"2022-08-30T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T06:05:24","slug":"enough-with-the-unseemly-whining-about-student-debt-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/30\/enough-with-the-unseemly-whining-about-student-debt-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough With the Unseemly Whining About Student Debt Forgiveness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greed, self interest and racism of US citizens never ceases to amaze and appall me.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden was dragged, against his own wishes, into using his executive authority to cancel a paltry $10.000 in federally insured student college debt for all those former students with current income of less than $125,000, and an extra $10,000 in forgiveness for those former students who had qualified for Pell Grants \u2014 a need-based federal scholarship frant limited to students whose families had annual incomes of below the poverty time at the time they were attending college.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/30\/enough-with-the-unseemly-whining-about-student-debt-forgiveness\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/08\/30\/enough-with-the-unseemly-whining-about-student-debt-forgiveness\/\">Enough With the Unseemly Whining About Student Debt Forgiveness!<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greed, self interest and racism of US citizens never ceases to amaze and appall me.<br \/>\nPresident Biden was dragged, against his own wishes, into using his executive authority to cancel a paltry $10.000 in federally insured student college debt for all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784234,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784176\/revisions\/784234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}