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The Shaky Challenge Against Student Debt Relief

The long-simmering argument over student debt flared up last August when Biden unveiled his student debt relief plan. He promised to reduce federal student debt by $10,000 for borrowers earning up to $125,000 annually, and $20,000 for recipients of Pell Grants. But ever since, the president’s plan has been battered. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the Biden administration, and over the past few days, both the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed a resolution to block the plan. However, one of the toughest challenges to the plan has mostly evaded the media’s glare. Biden v. Nebraska was first filed last September in the Eastern Missouri U.S. District Court by six states: Nebraska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and South Carolina. While five of the states’ cases have been struck down, Missouri remains. Eleni Schirmer is a writer, postdoc at Concordia University’s Social Justice Centre, and organizer with The Debt Collective. She recently co-authored a piece at the New York Times, "The Case Against Student Debt Relief Barely Even Pretends to Make Sense." This week, Schirmer speaks with Brooke about the research she and her team did to debunk the lawsuit's shaky claims, and the consequences of inadequate fact-checking at the Supreme Court.see more
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New Memoir from Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs Reflects on the People Who Shaped Him

Mina Kim
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"The Deeper the Roots" is a memoir from Michael Tubbs, the former mayor of Stockton. (Marc Levin via Blowback Productions)

Overcoming adversity has been the hallmark of Michael Tubb’s eventful life. When he was six, his father was sentenced to a near-life term in prison. At 22, Tubbs was elected to Stockton’s city council while still a student at Stanford. At 26, he became the city’s youngest and first black mayor. Along the way he founded programs to help underserved youth get to college, taught in high school, and introduced Universal Basic Income to the city. It has not all been easy as he reflects in his new memoir, “The Deeper the Roots.” Tubbs grapples with the survivor’s guilt that comes from seeing family murdered and friends caught up in poverty and violence. We’ll talk to Tubbs about his book and the stories and people who have shaped his life so far.

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Michael Tubbs, Special Advisor for Economic Mobility and Opportunity, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom; Former Mayor of Stockton. He has a new memoir, "The Deeper the Roots."

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