Debt Forgiveness Won’t Shield Students from Illinois’ Pension Pinch – RealClear Policy

Take U of I’s flagship Urbana-Champaign campus, with base tuition and fees now starting at $17,138 a year. In comparison, a Big-10 education for in-state students attending Indiana University-Bloomington or the University of Wisconsin-Madison costs nearly $6,000 less. Illinois schools cost more because most other states don’t have Illinois-sized pension debt.
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Stewie’s Return Pad
1 year ago

Debt forgiveness has nothing to do with helping those with student debt. It’s a giveaway to the woke left, unions, and SJWs to keep their scams fully funded without having to vote on funding them

debtsor
1 year ago

Debt forgiveness is not going to pass constitutional muster. Biden used a bill relating back to 9/11 during an emergency to forgive debts. Today’s emergency is COVID. They’re giving a student loan debt jubilee because of COVID. This is a short term political ploy to excite voters for the midterms. But in a year or two when it’s completely dead and there’s no foregiveness, his voters will be completely demoralized in 2024. Biden has taken a short term gain in exchange for a long term losses repeatedly: Afghanistan withdraw (bump in polls lead to people falling off planes) Extended COVID… Read more »

Old Joe
1 year ago
Reply to  debtsor

Spot on debtsor. For every happy renter and student borrower there’s an unhappy landlord and loan lender.

Old Joe
1 year ago
Reply to  Old Joe

Oops, I forgot there’s a reason the military is having trouble getting recruits. Seriously, do you want Bidet as your boss?

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