Wow. With all the brouhaha over student loan debt, Hawaii just launched their own student loan relief program for around 1,500 healthcare workers:
https://acasignups.net/24/01/22/hawaii-launches-student-loan-relief-program-1500-healthcare-workers
@charlesgaba
The #brouhaha is about #conservatives trying to stop #liberals from helping real people thus showing that liberals have a working plan.
Its not about the value of debt relief, even the people on the #SCOTUS know the debt forgiveness is a good idea; their sponsors have "forgiven" a lot of their debt.
#Democracy is more than how we vote.
@mral what?
Just because a plan is being blocked doesn't mean it's a good or workable plan.
Sometimes a plan is being blocked because it honestly stinks.
@charlesgaba
@volkris @charlesgaba
debt relief for students is one of the better ideas of late. It "sinks" because it doesn't address the root cause but it's a start.
The rich get bankruptcy, this has the same effect, debt forgiveness, but more targeted to the workers.
atleast now folks are thinking about it and it gives the next gen workers a break without waiting for a real fix to the silly cost of higher education.
@mral oh, it stinks for many reasons ranging from defunding of other government programs that relied on payments as part of their funding source through actually directly contributing to the root cause that you cite.
And so folks ranging from workers paying income taxes through unemployed people counting on government services through prospective students watching education prices rise in response all end up paying the price for benefits that already went to the relatively well-off folks getting out of their financial commitments.
We've thought about this before. And when we thought about the downsides we decided not to support the idea.
@charlesgaba
