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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is looking to strengthen its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027607/sfs-long-history-as-sanctuary-city-faces-renewed-challenges-under-trump\">sanctuary city status\u003c/a> by prohibiting federal law enforcement agencies from using city-owned properties for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new proposal from Supervisor Bilal Mahmood comes amid an uptick in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity both locally and around the country, and just weeks after San Francisco narrowly averted President Donald Trump’s call for a federal immigration surge in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t blur the lines between local government and federal immigration enforcement,” Mahmood, who is the son of immigrants, said at a press conference on Tuesday. “It is our job to deliver services. It is our job to make residents feel they can trust us. And it is our job to make sure that this city works for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed legislation would block agencies like ICE from using city-owned buildings, parks and even parking lots for anything that could disrupt public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also amend San Francisco’s Administrative Code to clarify that federal immigration enforcement is not a city purpose, and allow the city attorney to take legal action for unauthorized use of city property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cities with dense immigrant populations, like San José, have similarly sought to create so-called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060893/south-bay-leaders-aim-to-create-ice-free-zones\">ICE-free zones\u003c/a>” in the wake of rising deportations and increased immigration raids across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066528\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/ChyanneChenKQED1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A proposal co-sponsored by Supervisor Chyanne Chen and written by City Attorney David Chiu goes to the Board of Supervisors in January. It would let the city attorney take legal action if federal agents use city property for unauthorized purposes, including immigration enforcement. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco would be among the first cities in the nation to codify what federal law enforcement can and cannot do on city properties, which Mahmood said gives the proposal stronger teeth than some approaches other cities are taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Other actions that we’ve heard about across the country that we learned from were non-binding resolutions, or they were executive orders by the respective mayor,” Mahmood said. “Here, as a legislative body, we are taking action to make this into law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also recently moved to bar law enforcement, including ICE agents, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059088/masking-law-just-part-of-bigger-fight-over-immigration-enforcement\">wearing masks during operations\u003c/a>; however, the Trump administration is fighting the ban in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our immigration unit sees the human costs of detention and deportation every single day. People are taken from their families with little warning, held in remote facilities, and forced to navigate a system where due process is far from assured,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju, who is supporting the legislation.[aside postID=news_12065708 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has refrained from mentioning Trump by name, recently helped the city navigate the president’s threats to send in the National Guard and other federal agencies to carry out a large-scale federal immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, along with wealthy billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, managed to convince the president to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">hold off on sending troops\u003c/a> directly to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal immigration enforcement has increased overall this year. Arrests outside the city’s immigration court and high-profile incidents, like when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">van drove through a group\u003c/a> of anti-ICE protestors, have all led to rising tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, Mahmood and other immigrant advocates said many of the communities they serve are fearful of escalating ICE arrests and other demonstrations of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, where many immigrant families live, explained how undocumented families have stayed home from school, work, medical appointments or other public services to avoid encountering immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Max Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco works best when people can move through our city without fear,” Raju said. “The ICE-free zones ordinance reinforces that vision by making clear that city property cannot be repurposed in ways that create fear or that undermine the trust our communities place in public institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four in five Chinatown residents are also immigrants, according to Annie Lee, managing director for policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is based in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant safety must be paramount for San Francisco because immigrants are our neighbors, they are our friends, they are our students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has refrained from mentioning Trump by name, recently helped the city navigate the president’s threats to send in the National Guard and other federal agencies to carry out a large-scale federal immigration crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, along with wealthy billionaires like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, managed to convince the president to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">hold off on sending troops\u003c/a> directly to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal immigration enforcement has increased overall this year. Arrests outside the city’s immigration court and high-profile incidents, like when a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047397/ice-officers-drive-through-protesters-trying-to-stop-arrest-at-sf-immigration-court\">van drove through a group\u003c/a> of anti-ICE protestors, have all led to rising tensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s press conference, Mahmood and other immigrant advocates said many of the communities they serve are fearful of escalating ICE arrests and other demonstrations of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood, whose district includes the Tenderloin, where many immigrant families live, explained how undocumented families have stayed home from school, work, medical appointments or other public services to avoid encountering immigration officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-23-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju speaks at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Max Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, on Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco works best when people can move through our city without fear,” Raju said. “The ICE-free zones ordinance reinforces that vision by making clear that city property cannot be repurposed in ways that create fear or that undermine the trust our communities place in public institutions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly four in five Chinatown residents are also immigrants, according to Annie Lee, managing director for policy at Chinese for Affirmative Action, which is based in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant safety must be paramount for San Francisco because immigrants are our neighbors, they are our friends, they are our students. They drive our buses, deliver mail, they open the shops and the restaurants that we love,” Lee said at the press conference. “They make up the very fabric of this city, which has long been a beacon around the world as a place of opportunity, freedom and inclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which was co-sponsored by Supervisor Chyanne Chen and written by City Attorney David Chiu, is expected to go before the full Board of Supervisors for a vote in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Californians overwhelmingly view \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump\u003c/a> and his policies negatively, according to a new poll that also found growing enthusiasm in the state for the 2026 midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-december-2025/?utm_source=ppic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=epub\">poll from the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>, meanwhile, also suggests the race for governor remains \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065058/california-governors-race-is-still-up-for-grabs\">up for grabs\u003c/a>. Former Rep. Katie Porter leads a crowded field, though the survey was conducted last month, before Rep. Eric Swalwell and businessman Tom Steyer, both fellow Democrats, entered the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter had 21% support among likely voters, followed by former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, and businessman Steve Hilton, a Republican, tied at 14 %.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mark Baldassare, the PPIC survey director, noted that 40% of voters said they were not satisfied with their choices of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s a wide-open race, and many people say that they’re currently not satisfied with the choices that they had, so we’ll see how people feel now that there are more choices,” he said, noting that Porter likely benefited from her run for U.S. Senate last year, which helped raise her profile among voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, smiles as she prepares to address supporters at an election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Long Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The other important thing to keep in mind is that many Californians are saying they’re looking for somebody with experience and a proven track record, but not necessarily somebody who’s gonna continue to do what Gavin Newsom has done, although he remains popular as governor,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey also found Trump with the lowest approval ratings since his term started nearly a year ago: 25% of California adults and 29% of likely voters approve of his performance, down from 30% and 33% at the start of the year, respectively. Those numbers are driven by partisan identity: Just 4% of Democrats and 21% of independent voters approve of the president, while 79% of GOP voters say they approve of Trump’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two-thirds of Californians and likely voters also disapprove of some of the president’s key policy pushes, including the job Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing and the deployment of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066202/california-renews-push-to-bring-national-guard-back-under-newsoms-command\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to U.S. cities, including Los Angeles. And 70% of both groups say Congress should take action to extend the tax credits for Affordable Care Act insurance, which are set to expire at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re seeing in terms of the president’s approval rating, and for that matter Congress, has to do with a misalignment between the priorities of Californians, policy-wise, and what they’re seeing coming out of Washington right now,” Baldassare said.[aside postID=news_12066235 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/GettyImages-1153108468-1020x671.jpg']Given those concerns about the direction of the federal government, Baldassare said it’s perhaps unsurprising that Californians are more enthusiastic than usual about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060682/california-at-forefront-as-democrats-tap-doctors-for-high-stakes-house-races\">2026 midterm elections\u003c/a>, particularly the battle for control of the House of Representatives. About 6 in 10 voters say they want to see Democrats regain control of Congress, and more than 60% said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063016/how-prop-50s-win-reshapes-californias-2026-elections\">passing Proposition 50\u003c/a> was “mostly a good thing” for California, with more than half saying it was worth the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked this question in other special elections and didn’t get a similar response,” Baldassare said. “We’re seeing fairly positive ratings for the direction of the state overall and both Governor Newsom and the Legislature. And that’s pretty remarkable given how doom and gloom people are about the economy and democracy in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said, however, that voters list different concerns when they are asked about the biggest problems facing the U.S. and the state. When asked about the most important problem facing the U.S. today, the largest segment — one-third of voters — cited political extremism and threats to democracy. For California, poll respondents cite the cost of living and economic conditions as the most important issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see very few people saying that they’re satisfied with the way democracy is working in the U.S.,” Baldassare said. “For me, most alarming in this poll was the increase that we saw in the number of people who thought that there’s going to be more political violence in the future. … Overall, Californians are feeling that, yeah, the economy is a problem, but what we’re seeing coming out of Washington right now really bothers us in terms of where democracy is headed, both for the president and the Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey of more than 1,600 Californians was conducted between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mark Baldassare, the PPIC survey director, noted that 40% of voters said they were not satisfied with their choices of candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s a wide-open race, and many people say that they’re currently not satisfied with the choices that they had, so we’ll see how people feel now that there are more choices,” he said, noting that Porter likely benefited from her run for U.S. Senate last year, which helped raise her profile among voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030712\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/AP25069706250720-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Irvine, smiles as she prepares to address supporters at an election night party, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Long Beach, California. \u003ccite>(Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The other important thing to keep in mind is that many Californians are saying they’re looking for somebody with experience and a proven track record, but not necessarily somebody who’s gonna continue to do what Gavin Newsom has done, although he remains popular as governor,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC survey also found Trump with the lowest approval ratings since his term started nearly a year ago: 25% of California adults and 29% of likely voters approve of his performance, down from 30% and 33% at the start of the year, respectively. Those numbers are driven by partisan identity: Just 4% of Democrats and 21% of independent voters approve of the president, while 79% of GOP voters say they approve of Trump’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than two-thirds of Californians and likely voters also disapprove of some of the president’s key policy pushes, including the job Immigration and Customs Enforcement is doing and the deployment of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066202/california-renews-push-to-bring-national-guard-back-under-newsoms-command\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to U.S. cities, including Los Angeles. And 70% of both groups say Congress should take action to extend the tax credits for Affordable Care Act insurance, which are set to expire at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of what we’re seeing in terms of the president’s approval rating, and for that matter Congress, has to do with a misalignment between the priorities of Californians, policy-wise, and what they’re seeing coming out of Washington right now,” Baldassare said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Given those concerns about the direction of the federal government, Baldassare said it’s perhaps unsurprising that Californians are more enthusiastic than usual about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060682/california-at-forefront-as-democrats-tap-doctors-for-high-stakes-house-races\">2026 midterm elections\u003c/a>, particularly the battle for control of the House of Representatives. About 6 in 10 voters say they want to see Democrats regain control of Congress, and more than 60% said that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063016/how-prop-50s-win-reshapes-californias-2026-elections\">passing Proposition 50\u003c/a> was “mostly a good thing” for California, with more than half saying it was worth the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve asked this question in other special elections and didn’t get a similar response,” Baldassare said. “We’re seeing fairly positive ratings for the direction of the state overall and both Governor Newsom and the Legislature. And that’s pretty remarkable given how doom and gloom people are about the economy and democracy in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldassare said, however, that voters list different concerns when they are asked about the biggest problems facing the U.S. and the state. When asked about the most important problem facing the U.S. today, the largest segment — one-third of voters — cited political extremism and threats to democracy. For California, poll respondents cite the cost of living and economic conditions as the most important issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see very few people saying that they’re satisfied with the way democracy is working in the U.S.,” Baldassare said. “For me, most alarming in this poll was the increase that we saw in the number of people who thought that there’s going to be more political violence in the future. … Overall, Californians are feeling that, yeah, the economy is a problem, but what we’re seeing coming out of Washington right now really bothers us in terms of where democracy is headed, both for the president and the Congress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey of more than 1,600 Californians was conducted between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With a smile, Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, 38, closes her eyes when she says her friend’s name. She pauses. A tear rolls down her cheek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a real level of rage that I feel around Alice’s death,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13983848/alice-wong-disability-rights-activist-obituary\"> a month\u003c/a> since disability activist and author \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101912041/remembering-disability-activist-alice-wong\">Alice Wong\u003c/a> died in San Francisco. Since her passing, KQED has spoken with many of Wong’s friends and collaborators in the Bay Area to better understand what motivated her decades of organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her writings and public appearances, Wong spoke of the need for disabled people to advocate loudly for their health needs. This mission brought together a bold and effective network of advocates living with different disabilities. But now, folks are preparing for the biggest challenge yet: more than a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid and other social services in the coming decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">slashing a lifeline\u003c/a> for disabled people nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alice fought like hell to exist in her body and mind every day,” said Hernandez-Wilson, who works for a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers and caretakers. “There is a larger system at play that dictates if we are worthy enough of getting care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in rural Minnesota, Hernandez-Wilson was the only student with a disability in her class and one of the few students of color in her entire school. “I was afraid that if I was labeled as a certain type of disabled person, I would be locked away in a classroom … that deep internalized ableism can really mess with your mind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/\">\u003cem>Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an anthology edited by Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, left, and Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, right, hold hands at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Hernandez-Wilson and Ho, who both worked closely with disability justice leader Alice Wong, are mourning their loss, yet continuing their fight for disability justice. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time in my entire life that I really saw disabled people who looked like me embody self-love, embracing their body and mind,” she said. “It was like a hug from the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez-Wilson moved to the Bay Area last year, Wong became her mentor and friend. They shared jokes, stories of old crushes and how each managed their health. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Wong dealt with chronic health issues throughout her life. After a series of medical emergencies in 2022, she began communicating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601143471/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice-2\">through text-to-speech technology\u003c/a> and her family confirmed that her death was due to an infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the systems weren’t the way they are, many of our people would still be here,” said Hernandez-Wilson. But even after Wong’s passing, she said, a generation of activists mentored by her is ready to push forward a bolder vision of liberation for all disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Centering the most marginalized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gifted with radiant charm and a disarming sense of humor, Wong, who was 51, built coalitions between different disabled communities. Cross-disability solidarity is \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/\">a core principle of disability justice\u003c/a>, a framework developed over the last decade by queer and trans disabled activists of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20th century, the primary objective for many disabled activists was securing equal employment, political participation and economic self-sufficiency — as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, sits in the courtyard at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This organizing was rooted in the Bay Area: the independent living movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2017-04-05/berkeley-disability-activists-took-cues-from-the-civil-rights-era-and-sparked-a-national-movement\">took off here in the 1970s\u003c/a>; activists in Berkeley created the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/they-took-sledgehammers-sidewalks-heres-why-curb-cut-effect/\">first sidewalk curb cuts\u003c/a>; and in 1977, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966861/judith-heumann-disability-rights-uc-berkeley-center-independent-living\">more than 100 disabled protesters\u003c/a> occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand implementation of the rule that prohibited discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of disability justice maintain that ableism affects everyone — particularly those living with disabilities — and call for a future free of all systems that oppress disabled people. This fight, Wong said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2003809/episodes/10799918-making-the-world-brighter-sassier-and-more-colorful-alice-wong-on-disability-justice\">a 2022 podcast\u003c/a>, “must center on the most marginalized.” Nowhere is this more necessary, she added, than in a post-COVID world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cities and states rushed to loosen pandemic restrictions, Wong pushed back and demanded hospitals — including her own care provider, UCSF — continue \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/25/n95s4ucsf-call-to-action/\">requiring face masks\u003c/a> and expand \u003ca href=\"https://nursing.ucsf.edu/news/disability-and-health-care-conversation-activist-alice-wong\">research into treatments\u003c/a> for those living with long COVID.[aside postID=news_11984990 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Featured-photo-horizontal-Alice-Wong-1020x574.png']That’s how she met Charlie McCone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before contracting COVID in 2020, McCone, 35, said he had never experienced a serious health problem before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go from biking 10 miles a day to work to being housebound indefinitely, losing your job and not having any answers from the medical system, it is absolutely devastating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/long-covid\">Long COVID\u003c/a> — a chronic condition that follows many coronavirus infections and still confounds researchers — permanently altered McCone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for answers to his condition, he joined Twitter (now known as X). From his San Francisco home, he shared his experiences online, hoping more people would take long COVID seriously. But after two years, “I came to the realization that otherwise good and reasonable people are still completely unfazed by the fact that their next COVID infection could cause extreme harm to them or their family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started to feel rage at the injustices he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People disabled by this virus and those already disabled prior to the pandemic are being completely disregarded and considered disposable by the general public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While others recommended he temper his emotions online, Wong encouraged McCone to lean into them. They met in person for the first time in 2023 over tea and soon got to work: over the next year, their online network launched \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/\">a massive social media campaign\u003c/a> to pressure federal lawmakers to address the needs of those with long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts would bear fruit in January 2024 when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225862790/advocates-push-for-greater-investment-in-long-covid-research-at-senate-hearing\">first Congressional hearing\u003c/a> on long COVID. Patients and doctors testified and called for long-term investments in research. Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006894/bay-areas-long-covid-community-celebrates-moonshot-bill-for-10-billion-in-funding\">later proposed $10 billion\u003c/a> in funding for research, treatment and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Eli Gelardin, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Disability, speaks with Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, and Debbie Kaplan, Deputy Director of Programmatic Access, at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alice could make incredibly meaningful change through media,” McCone said, adding that folks living with long COVID need to keep sharing their stories — now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to fund long COVID research has stalled since Republicans took control of Congress, but the Trump administration is moving quickly to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major health care reforms\u003c/a> outlined in the sweeping legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new eligibility rules for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million low-income Californians. State health officials predict that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage in the coming years under new rules that include more frequent eligibility screenings and work requirements for certain groups. While the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">insists\u003c/a> that the bill will not take coverage away from Americans with disabilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">independent policy experts note\u003c/a> that California will lose matching federal funds as residents lose their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers could respond by \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/history-repeats-faced-medicaid-cuts-states-reduced-support-older-adults-and-disabled\">cutting home and community-based services\u003c/a>, which allow people with disabilities to receive treatment, care and job training in their own communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want people with disabilities to get jobs, then you don’t cut the health care that allows people to stay well enough to work,” said Silvia Yee, public policy director at the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. “You don’t cut the services that help people with disabilities navigate hiring and settling into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Medicaid changes, Yee noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also failed to extend subsidies for people who bought health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Covered California. Many people with a disability or chronic illness have an ACA insurance plan and will have to pay more to receive necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These all seem like different cuts, but they affect the same pool of people,” Yee said. “All of this together makes it incredibly hard for people with disabilities to participate and live as part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The weight of carrying out disability justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The future can quite often feel precarious when you’re disabled, said Sandy Ho, one of Wong’s closest friends and executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum. Ho, originally from Boston, met Wong 15 years ago online. They didn’t meet in person until Ho moved to Oakland, but the bond of their friendship endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are always forces trying to take away our health care, and Alice understood that on a level that emboldened her to just say, ‘F— it all, either you’re with me, or you’re not,’” said Ho, who Wong tasked with carrying forward some of her unfinished projects, including her next book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, a disability justice activist, poses for a portrait at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Ho worked closely with Alice Wong, a disability justice leader who died in November. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many of us got to witness her life and be a part of it on so many different levels,” she said, adding that Wong loved organizing dinner parties for her friends, bringing together artists, organizers, researchers and health care workers. “She is our future — the future looks like getting fed really well because disabled people deserve delicious things. Disabled people deserve joy, to have fun and create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year also saw the death of another leader in the disabled community: Patty Berne — co-founder of the Bay Area-based performance group \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/about-sins/\">Sins Invalid\u003c/a> and one of the minds behind the disability justice framework — \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/08/patty-berne-obituary-disability-justice-movement/\">died last May in Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I have unfortunately experienced a lot in the disability community is grief,” said Rosemary McDonnell-Horita, a Berkeley-based writer who was a friend to Wong and Berne. “The depths of love also come with the depths of grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns both online and in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://dredf.org/oppose-cuts-to-medi-cal/\">are already underway\u003c/a> to protect Medi-Cal funding that serves disabled Californians. Other friends of Wong are \u003ca href=\"https://llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong-was-crips-for-esims-for\">continuing her call\u003c/a> to help provide disabled Palestinians in Gaza with cellular data. And McDonnell-Horita plans to keep working on a project that Wong loudly cheered: a cookbook for disabled people by disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all now bear the weight of carrying out disability justice to the best of our ability,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alice fought like hell to exist in her body and mind every day,” said Hernandez-Wilson, who works for a nonprofit that advocates for domestic workers and caretakers. “There is a larger system at play that dictates if we are worthy enough of getting care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raised in rural Minnesota, Hernandez-Wilson was the only student with a disability in her class and one of the few students of color in her entire school. “I was afraid that if I was labeled as a certain type of disabled person, I would be locked away in a classroom … that deep internalized ableism can really mess with your mind,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As an adult, she picked up \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617802/disability-visibility-by-alice-wong/\">\u003cem>Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an anthology edited by Wong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065500\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065500\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00424_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, left, and Brittanie Hernandez-Wilson, right, hold hands at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Hernandez-Wilson and Ho, who both worked closely with disability justice leader Alice Wong, are mourning their loss, yet continuing their fight for disability justice. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time in my entire life that I really saw disabled people who looked like me embody self-love, embracing their body and mind,” she said. “It was like a hug from the universe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hernandez-Wilson moved to the Bay Area last year, Wong became her mentor and friend. They shared jokes, stories of old crushes and how each managed their health. Born with spinal muscular atrophy, Wong dealt with chronic health issues throughout her life. After a series of medical emergencies in 2022, she began communicating \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601143471/alice-wong-i-still-have-a-voice-2\">through text-to-speech technology\u003c/a> and her family confirmed that her death was due to an infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the systems weren’t the way they are, many of our people would still be here,” said Hernandez-Wilson. But even after Wong’s passing, she said, a generation of activists mentored by her is ready to push forward a bolder vision of liberation for all disabled people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Centering the most marginalized\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gifted with radiant charm and a disarming sense of humor, Wong, who was 51, built coalitions between different disabled communities. Cross-disability solidarity is \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/10-principles-of-disability-justice/\">a core principle of disability justice\u003c/a>, a framework developed over the last decade by queer and trans disabled activists of color in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 20th century, the primary objective for many disabled activists was securing equal employment, political participation and economic self-sufficiency — as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/250813-DisabilityCulturalCenter-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and founder of the Disability Visibility Project, sits in the courtyard at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This organizing was rooted in the Bay Area: the independent living movement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/news/2017-04-05/berkeley-disability-activists-took-cues-from-the-civil-rights-era-and-sparked-a-national-movement\">took off here in the 1970s\u003c/a>; activists in Berkeley created the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/they-took-sledgehammers-sidewalks-heres-why-curb-cut-effect/\">first sidewalk curb cuts\u003c/a>; and in 1977, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13966861/judith-heumann-disability-rights-uc-berkeley-center-independent-living\">more than 100 disabled protesters\u003c/a> occupied the San Francisco Federal Building to demand implementation of the rule that prohibited discrimination based on disability in federally funded programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of disability justice maintain that ableism affects everyone — particularly those living with disabilities — and call for a future free of all systems that oppress disabled people. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s how she met Charlie McCone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before contracting COVID in 2020, McCone, 35, said he had never experienced a serious health problem before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you go from biking 10 miles a day to work to being housebound indefinitely, losing your job and not having any answers from the medical system, it is absolutely devastating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/long-covid\">Long COVID\u003c/a> — a chronic condition that follows many coronavirus infections and still confounds researchers — permanently altered McCone’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Searching for answers to his condition, he joined Twitter (now known as X). From his San Francisco home, he shared his experiences online, hoping more people would take long COVID seriously. But after two years, “I came to the realization that otherwise good and reasonable people are still completely unfazed by the fact that their next COVID infection could cause extreme harm to them or their family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He started to feel rage at the injustices he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People disabled by this virus and those already disabled prior to the pandemic are being completely disregarded and considered disposable by the general public,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preparing for cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While others recommended he temper his emotions online, Wong encouraged McCone to lean into them. They met in person for the first time in 2023 over tea and soon got to work: over the next year, their online network launched \u003ca href=\"https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/disabled-outrage-and-podsavejon/\">a massive social media campaign\u003c/a> to pressure federal lawmakers to address the needs of those with long COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their efforts would bear fruit in January 2024 when Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) held the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225862790/advocates-push-for-greater-investment-in-long-covid-research-at-senate-hearing\">first Congressional hearing\u003c/a> on long COVID. Patients and doctors testified and called for long-term investments in research. Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006894/bay-areas-long-covid-community-celebrates-moonshot-bill-for-10-billion-in-funding\">later proposed $10 billion\u003c/a> in funding for research, treatment and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052187\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052187\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250813-DISABILITYCULTURALCENTER-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Eli Gelardin, Director of the Mayor’s Office on Disability, speaks with Alice Wong, a disability rights activist, and Debbie Kaplan, Deputy Director of Programmatic Access, at the Disability Cultural Center on Aug. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alice could make incredibly meaningful change through media,” McCone said, adding that folks living with long COVID need to keep sharing their stories — now more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation to fund long COVID research has stalled since Republicans took control of Congress, but the Trump administration is moving quickly to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major health care reforms\u003c/a> outlined in the sweeping legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill establishes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047647/trumps-health-law-spurs-big-medi-cal-changes-what-californians-need-to-know\">new eligibility rules for Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, the state’s Medicaid program that covers over 15 million low-income Californians. State health officials predict that up to 3.4 million Medi-Cal recipients could lose their coverage in the coming years under new rules that include more frequent eligibility screenings and work requirements for certain groups. While the White House \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/myth-vs-fact-the-one-big-beautiful-bill/\">insists\u003c/a> that the bill will not take coverage away from Americans with disabilities, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058930/medicaid-cuts-could-put-services-for-disabled-californians-at-risk\">independent policy experts note\u003c/a> that California will lose matching federal funds as residents lose their Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers could respond by \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/history-repeats-faced-medicaid-cuts-states-reduced-support-older-adults-and-disabled\">cutting home and community-based services\u003c/a>, which allow people with disabilities to receive treatment, care and job training in their own communities rather than in institutions like nursing homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you really want people with disabilities to get jobs, then you don’t cut the health care that allows people to stay well enough to work,” said Silvia Yee, public policy director at the Berkeley-based Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund. “You don’t cut the services that help people with disabilities navigate hiring and settling into a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Medicaid changes, Yee noted that the One Big Beautiful Bill also failed to extend subsidies for people who bought health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces like Covered California. Many people with a disability or chronic illness have an ACA insurance plan and will have to pay more to receive necessary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These all seem like different cuts, but they affect the same pool of people,” Yee said. “All of this together makes it incredibly hard for people with disabilities to participate and live as part of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The weight of carrying out disability justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The future can quite often feel precarious when you’re disabled, said Sandy Ho, one of Wong’s closest friends and executive director of the Disability and Philanthropy Forum. Ho, originally from Boston, met Wong 15 years ago online. They didn’t meet in person until Ho moved to Oakland, but the bond of their friendship endured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are always forces trying to take away our health care, and Alice understood that on a level that emboldened her to just say, ‘F— it all, either you’re with me, or you’re not,’” said Ho, who Wong tasked with carrying forward some of her unfinished projects, including her next book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065498\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065498\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-DISABILITYJUSTICELEADERS00080_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Ho, a disability justice activist, poses for a portrait at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Nov. 24, 2025. Ho worked closely with Alice Wong, a disability justice leader who died in November. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So many of us got to witness her life and be a part of it on so many different levels,” she said, adding that Wong loved organizing dinner parties for her friends, bringing together artists, organizers, researchers and health care workers. “She is our future — the future looks like getting fed really well because disabled people deserve delicious things. Disabled people deserve joy, to have fun and create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year also saw the death of another leader in the disabled community: Patty Berne — co-founder of the Bay Area-based performance group \u003ca href=\"https://sinsinvalid.org/about-sins/\">Sins Invalid\u003c/a> and one of the minds behind the disability justice framework — \u003ca href=\"https://19thnews.org/2025/08/patty-berne-obituary-disability-justice-movement/\">died last May in Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that I have unfortunately experienced a lot in the disability community is grief,” said Rosemary McDonnell-Horita, a Berkeley-based writer who was a friend to Wong and Berne. “The depths of love also come with the depths of grief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaigns both online and in Sacramento \u003ca href=\"https://dredf.org/oppose-cuts-to-medi-cal/\">are already underway\u003c/a> to protect Medi-Cal funding that serves disabled Californians. 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However, because federal appeals court judges \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca9.33862d2f-fcee-484b-82e0-2aefd5de7aaa/gov.uscourts.ca9.33862d2f-fcee-484b-82e0-2aefd5de7aaa.7.0.pdf\">granted\u003c/a> the government’s request for a stay, the order never took effect.[aside postID=news_12060875 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/NationalGuardGetty.jpg']Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth initially federalized 4000 National Guard troops and more than 700 Marines to Los Angeles in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violent protests threaten the security of and significant damage to Federal immigration detention facilities and other Federal property,” Trump said in a June 7 memo. “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The necessity of that deployment has been the center of a see-sawing legal battle between California and the Trump administration, and has become the model for mobilizations throughout the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the Trump administration redeployed 214 California National Guard troops to Portland, an action ultimately prevented by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12059205/sf-appeals-court-appears-reluctant-to-block-trumps-national-guard-deployment-to-portland\">a federal judge in Oregon\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 350,000 Californians are now behind on their student loan payments — the highest delinquency rate for any type of debt in over two decades, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/news/student-loan-delinquencies-surging-especially-for-older-borrowers/\">California Policy Lab\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also the highest rate of delinquencies that UC Berkeley California Policy Lab executive director Evan White said he’s seen in the data “for any credit product, including student loans, auto loans, mortgage loans, credit cards” since 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The missed payments are a symptom of a financial safety net that was already frayed before the COVID-19 pandemic greatly disrupted loan repayments. And now, that safety net is unravelling as \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/resource/obbba-increased-costs-fact-sheet/\">borrowers face higher bills\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/idr-court-actions\">fewer repayment options\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/31/2025-19729/william-d-ford-federal-direct-loan-direct-loan-program\">limited eligibility for loan forgiveness programs\u003c/a> amid a system that even experts call confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal student loan system is broken,” said Mike Pierce, Executive Director and co-founder of the legal advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/\">Protect Borrowers\u003c/a>. “It’s been broken for decades, and lawmakers have failed to deal with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this uncertainty, here’s what to know if you’re a borrower in the process of paying off student debt — from the changes to federal loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans to the latest legal proceedings and how they might affect you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whataremyoptionsforincomedrivenrepayment\">What are my options for income-driven repayment?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#IworkforanonprofitorganizationCanIstillqualifyforPublicServiceLoanForgivenessPSLF\">I work for a nonprofit organization. Can I still qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ImenrolledintheSAVEplanWhatshouldIbedoing\">I’m enrolled in the SAVE plan. What should I be doing?\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowwilltheOneBigBeautifulBillimpactmyloans\">How will the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ impact my loans?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#IthinkmyloanservicermadeamistakeWhatshouldIdo\">I think my loan servicer made a mistake. What should I do?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How did my student loans get so complicated?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/coronavirus-student-loans-education-testing.html\">the federal government paused student loan payments and interest\u003c/a>, giving borrowers an unprecedented break that lasted over three years. Many Californians used that breathing room to pay down credit card debt, build up savings, and even open new lines of credit. Financial wellness metrics improved across the board, according to White and the California Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as pandemic-era supports ended and loan payments restarted, that relief has now given way to widespread confusion. Borrowers faced mixed messages about repayment deadlines, forgiveness options and which income-driven plans they could actually enroll in. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/business/biden-student-loans.html\">Federal loan forgiveness became a political hot potato during and after the 2020 election\u003c/a>, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/business/student-loan-pause-pandemic.html\">repayment deadlines rescheduled under President Donald Trump’s first term … and again\u003c/a> under President Joe Biden. And each delay created more uncertainty about when payments would resume and whether borrowers might qualify for relief, said Mike Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061284\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University on March 11, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then the legal battles began. The SAVE plan used by millions of student loan borrowers — along with several income-driven repayment options that predated this Biden-era plan — became embroiled in court challenges that have continued to drag on for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, student loan borrowers have found themselves stuck in limbo for most of 2025: unable to enroll in affordable repayment plans, unsure whether they qualify for loan forgiveness and unclear about the latest and most accurate guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a system where even borrowers who \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to pay are struggling to get a handle on their loans, according to Jonathan Glater, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.slli.org/\">Student Loan Law Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the criticisms of this whole complicated edifice that we’ve got is that it’s very, very difficult for borrowers to navigate,” said Glater. “It is way too complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which borrowers are most affected right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lower-income student loan borrowers are “mostly worse off than they were before the pandemic happened,” said the California Policy Lab’s White, who’s also a member of the research team that created and maintains the \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/california-credit-dashboard/\">California Credit Dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older borrowers are the most likely to be impacted in California, White added. According to the California Policy Lab. \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Student-Loan-Delinquencies-Surging.pdf\">One possible reason for higher delinquency rates among older borrowers is that they typically owe a larger monthly payment\u003c/a> on their student loans. [aside postID=mindshift_65377 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2025/03/capossela-npr-book-education-v2-final-1020x680.jpeg']The average Boomer with student debt owes $150 per month in student loan payments — 2.4 times that of the average Millennial ($62/month) and 5.8 times that of the average Gen Zer ($26/month). These loans may have been used to pay for their own education, one or more children’s education — or a combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The financial burden hitting older borrowers might also be attributed in part to the way the federal loan repayment system works, said White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan repayment plans are designed to limit the amount of payments borrowers make to a fixed period of time. But after a long pandemic pause, borrowers may be resuming their payments with fewer monthly payments remaining — and a balance that hasn’t diminished, or has actually grown from interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: higher monthly payments than what borrowers may have been paying even prior to pandemic assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whataremyoptionsforincomedrivenrepayment\">\u003c/a>What are my options for income-driven repayment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a two-month freeze, \u003ca href=\"https://studentloanborrowerassistance.org/idr-application-is-back-up/#2\">the Department of Education is now processing applications for income-driven repayment (IDR) plans again\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently four IDR plans available to borrowers with federal student loans. (Federal loans generally include “direct” or “federal” in the title, but you can find \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven#eligibility\">a complete list of eligible loan types here\u003c/a>, to make sure yours qualifies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047499 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Education is seen before the Safeguard Students, Empower Education Rally & Press Conference on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s important to carefully compare plans, as each borrower’s situation is different. You can use this \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/loan-simulator/\">Federal Student Loan Simulator\u003c/a> to calculate and compare your monthly payments under each of the available federal IDR plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All IDR plans base your monthly loan payment on a percentage of your discretionary income, in combination with your family size. The exact percentage of your income and how long you will have to repay varies by plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven#repayment-period\">detailed information about all federal IDR plans here\u003c/a>, but here are the highlights at a glance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Capped at 10% of discretionary income, repaid over 20 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>New Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For eligible loans borrowed \u003cem>after \u003c/em>July 1, 2014\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Capped at 10% of discretionary income, repaid over 20 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Old Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For eligible loans borrowed \u003cem>before \u003c/em>July 1, 2014\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Capped at 15% of discretionary income, repaid over 25 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Capped at 20% of discretionary income, repaid over 25 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/idr/\">Apply for an income-driven plan for the first time, or switch between plans, here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits of income-driven repayment plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some people, payments on an IDR plan can be as low as $0 per month. Others may be able to take advantage of another perk — exemption from interest on their loans — if their income-adjusted payments wouldn’t cover the interest accruing on their student loans each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IDR plans also operate on a fixed schedule, meaning you’re committed to repaying them over a period of 20 or 25 years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65643/how-is-your-student-loan-repayment-affected-by-the-one-big-beautiful-bill\">although the new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) will offer a 30-year repayment period \u003c/a>beginning in 2028. While paying several decades of loan payments may not sound like your idea of a great time, any remaining loan balance could be forgiven outright if your federal student loans aren’t fully repaid by the end of this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drawbacks of income-driven repayment plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before you celebrate loan forgiveness, be sure to read the fine print. Loan balances forgiven at the end of an IDR repayment period are actually subject to income tax — leading savvy borrowers to save for the \u003ca href=\"https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/changes-ahead-for-taxpayers-with-discharged-student-loan-debt/\">“tax bomb” that will accompany their emancipation from student debt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you enroll in an IDR plan, you should also set a reminder to update, or “recertify,” your income and family size every year, even if there has been no change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-scaled-e1764803931499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a Senate Appropriations hearing, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The consequences for borrowers on IDR plans who don’t recertify their incomes are strict, as you could be removed from your plan and placed on an alternative plan where monthly payments are \u003cem>not \u003c/em>based on income, leading to higher monthly payments and resumed interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while you can reapply for your preferred IDR plan, recertification issues can cause delays in loan forgiveness, not to mention financial stress. The Department of Education warns that \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/status-of-idr-plan-application\">new applications for IDR plans typically take 30 days to process\u003c/a> – leaving you on the hook for any student loan payments and interest accrued in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/idr/\">Apply for an income-driven plan for the first time, or switch between plans, here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"IworkforanonprofitorganizationCanIstillqualifyforPublicServiceLoanForgivenessPSLF\">\u003c/a>I work for a nonprofit organization. Can I still qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you work for a nonprofit or government employer, Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) can be a powerful tool for managing your student debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works: make 120 qualifying monthly payments over a 10-year period while working full-time for a qualifying employer, and any remaining federal student loan debt gets forgiven — without that “tax bomb” of income-driven repayment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PSLF was created by Congress in 2007 specifically to help recruit and retain talented people in public service jobs that often pay less than private sector positions. More than 1 million public servants, from teachers, nurses and social workers to librarians and public defenders, had their loans forgiven through this program under the Biden administration. [aside postID=news_11963857 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1364803352-qut-1020x680.jpg']Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-executive-order-student-loan-forgiveness.html\">President Donald Trump’s second administration is seeking to change who qualifies\u003c/a>. An executive order signed by Trump in March and set to take effect July 1, 2026, would allow the education secretary — not the courts or Congress — to deny loan forgiveness to workers whose employers engage in activities deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/31/2025-19729/william-d-ford-federal-direct-loan-direct-loan-program\">examples listed in the rule include\u003c/a> “aiding and abetting violations of Federal immigration laws” and providing certain types of gender-affirming care. San Francisco and several other cities are suing to block this rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protect Borrowers has been involved in filing several of these lawsuits, claiming that restricting public service loan forgiveness is “an attempt to target organizations and jurisdictions whose missions and policies do not align with [the Trump administration’s] political positions on immigration, race, gender, free speech, and public protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration recognized that there’s real power in the federal government, because it is the creditor for 40 million people,” Pierce said. He is concerned that public service workers could lose access to loan forgiveness simply because their employer resisted federal immigration enforcement or maintained diversity, equity and inclusion programs — even though those local policies may be perfectly legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So amid this legal action, what should you do if you’re working toward PSLF forgiveness?\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Don’t wait\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Submit your employment certification forms now to get credit for the payments you’ve already made.\u003c/p>\n\u003col start=\"2\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Keep meticulous records \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Your employment, every loan payment you’ve made — collect screenshots, confirmation emails, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003col start=\"3\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Work extra-fast if you’re close to hitting that 120-payment mark\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Prioritize reaching that threshold before the July 2026 deadline when this rule takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re currently enrolled in SAVE, consider switching to another income-driven repayment plan to resume qualifying PSLF payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also pay attention to how this lawsuit unfolds, said Pierce. \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/litigation/pslf-lawsuit/\">The plaintiffs argue the Education Department is overstepping its authority and rewriting what Congress clearly defined as “public service” — any government job or 501(c)(3) nonprofit\u003c/a>. The courts will ultimately decide whether the secretary has the power to add political litmus tests to a program Congress designed to support all public service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, protect yourself by documenting everything and staying informed about your rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ImenrolledintheSAVEplanWhatshouldIbedoing\">\u003c/a>I’m enrolled in the SAVE plan. Should I switch to another income-driven repayment option?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The SAVE plan was designed to be a lifeline — the most affordable income-driven repayment option the federal government had offered to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Promising shorter repayment periods, more generous income calculations that would lower monthly payments and a faster path to loan forgiveness for low-income borrowers, \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/new-court-filing-reveals-backlog-of-2-million-borrower-payment-plan-applications/#:~:text=Background,district%20court%20for%20further%20proceedings.\">the SAVE plan had eight million enrollees\u003c/a> as of May 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg\" alt='People hold signs reading \"Cancel Student Debt Now!\" in front of the columned facade of the supreme court.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student debt relief activists participate in a rally at the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Missouri and several other Republican-led states filed lawsuits challenging the SAVE repayment plan and arguing that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority beginning in spring 2024 — and \u003ca href=\"https://studentloanborrowerassistance.org/part-2-the-current-impact-on-borrowers-of-lawsuits-challenging-the-save-plan-and-the-removal-of-idr-applications/\">SAVE has been frozen in legal limbo ever since\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re enrolled in SAVE, here’s what’s happening with your loans right now: You haven’t been required to make payments since last summer while the case winds through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re in what’s known as “forbearance,” and while those months do count toward eventual income-driven repayment forgiveness (typically after 20 to 25 years), they don’t count as qualifying payments toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as of August, interest has resumed accruing — which means your balance will continue to grow each month, unless you make payments to offset the interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For borrowers working toward PSLF who are close to the 120-payment finish line, staying in SAVE means you’re losing time: those paused months won’t count, and \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/public-service-loan-forgiveness-buyback\">you may need to use a “buy back” option later to pay for these months retroactively\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? You have options. Applications for other income-driven repayment plans — Income-Based Repayment, Pay as You Earn, and Income-Contingent Repayment — are now open again after a months-long delay. If you’re pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, switching to one of these plans means your payments will start counting toward that 120-payment requirement again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re simply trying to stop your balance from ballooning, moving to an active repayment plan gives you more control. The application process may take a few weeks, but for many borrowers — especially those close to PSLF eligibility or watching their interest pile up — making the switch may be worth it to get back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowwilltheOneBigBeautifulBillimpactmyloans\">\u003c/a>How will the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ impact my loans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re a federal student loan borrower, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text\">H.R.1 budget, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u003c/a>, that passed in July, included changes to the federal loan system that could impact you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAVE plan is being shut down by July 1, 2028 — but so are two other income-driven repayment plans: Pay as You Earn (PAYE) and Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR). If you’re currently enrolled in either of these plans, you’ll need to switch before that deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047827\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump bangs a gavel after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the White House on July 4. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan, a Reagan-era program that was implemented by Congress, will remain available for current borrowers. Pierce said it’s worth considering now, especially since it offers loan forgiveness after 20 or 25 years instead of the 30 years required under the Trump administration’s proposed replacement plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) won’t be ready until next year, and key details haven’t been revealed yet — leaving borrowers with limited information to plan ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spending bill includes provisions that also affect future students: new borrowers taking out loans after July 1, 2026, will not have access to traditional income-driven repayment plans at all. They’ll be limited to the new RAP or a standard fixed-payment plan, both with far less flexibility than previous options. [aside postID=mindshift_65643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2025/07/gettyimages-1676464096-2000x1220.jpeg']The law also introduces borrowing caps for graduate and professional degree students ($20,500 annually, $100,000 lifetime) and parents taking out loans to assist with a child’s education ($20,000 per year, $65,000 per child).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student loan experts worry these caps will push more borrowers toward private lenders, which charge higher interest rates, offer less favorable terms and don’t qualify for any income-driven repayment or forgiveness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re pushing people into the private student loan market and away from safe federal student loans with good consumer protections,” said Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jonathan Glater, H.R.1 does nothing to address why student debt became a crisis in the first place: skyrocketing college tuition costs. By capping federal borrowing without tackling affordability, the law may simply shift the burden from federal loans to private debt, he warned — or price students out of higher education entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that what we are seeing is a lifting of the ladder of higher ed opportunity higher, so it’ll be out of reach for more people,” said Glater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re planning for graduate school or helping a child pay for college, factor these new limits into your timeline and consider whether starting \u003cem>before \u003c/em>July 2026 would give you access to more generous borrowing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And document everything — experts caution that, considering the sheer volume of changes, and the Education Department operating with reduced staff, keeping detailed records of your loans, payments, and applications is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"IthinkmyloanservicermadeamistakeWhatshouldIdo\">\u003c/a>I think my loan servicer made a mistake. What should I do?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Your federal student loans might be owned by the government, but they’re managed by private loan servicing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a black mark on the student loan system that people need to know what a student loan servicer is,” Pierce said. These are companies contracted to administer and collect your loans, handle your payments, process paperwork for income-driven repayment plans and answer your questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955727 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person with long hair and a black t-shirt holds up a bright yellow sign reading \"Cancel Student Debt\" amidst others doing similar.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a “Cancel Student Debt” sign outside of the Supreme Court of the United States after the nation’s high court stuck down President Biden’s student debt relief program in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The problem? In their role as the middleman between you and the Department of Education, several \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-bans-navient-from-federal-student-loan-servicing-and-orders-the-company-to-pay-120-million-for-wide-ranging-student-lending-failures/\">loan servicers have made serious administrative errors\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024/AFT%20v.%20MOHELA_Complaint%2007.22.2024.pdf\">have been targets of class action lawsuits for mishandling borrower accounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear the worst stories about lost paperwork, changing balances, the rules being rewritten for people right in the middle of paying their loans back when those loan companies change,” said Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been repaying loans for a while, you’ve probably experienced at least one transfer of your debt from one servicer to another. According to Pierce, each transfer creates an opportunity for information to get lost, payment counts to be recorded incorrectly or for the servicer to lose contact with you entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you think your loan servicer made a mistake — whether it’s incorrect payment counts, wrong balance information, or problems with your repayment plan — don’t just accept it, urged Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protect Borrowers has detailed resources on their website explaining what steps to take when your servicer gets it wrong, which include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Start by documenting everything\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take screenshots of your account, save emails and letters, and keep records of every phone call, said Pierce — including the date, time, and name of the representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>File a formal complaint with your servicer first\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…but be ready to escalate to the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/feedback-ombudsman\">Federal Student Aid Ombudsman\u003c/a> if the issue isn’t resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California borrowers have an additional resource: the state’s dedicated \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/contact-us/\">Student Loan Ombudsman\u003c/a>, who can help navigate disputes and advocate on your behalf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Be proactive and persistent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan servicers handle millions of accounts, and mistakes happen — but those mistakes can cost you thousands of dollars or years of progress toward forgiveness if they’re not caught and corrected, said Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t assume your servicer has correct information for you\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…especially after a transfer. Regularly check your account, verify your payment counts match your records, and if something looks off, speak up immediately. The more documentation you have, the easier it will be to prove an error and get it fixed, said Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His advice for borrowers “that are just stuck” is to go to your lawmaker and \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/resource/protect-borrowers-congressional-casework-tool/\">open up a case with your local member of Congress or your state senator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s only so much you can do with the current law, but for people that are stuck waiting on hold … or feel like they’ve been lied to by a student loan company, often going to your member of congress and opening up a case with them is the best way forward here,” he said, adding that Congressional casework can cut through red tape when the Education Department is overwhelmed or unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I need help navigating my student loans, but I’m not hearing back. Why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031831/i-have-student-loans-what-should-i-do-during-these-department-of-education-cuts\">The Department of Education has been hit hard by cuts under the Trump administration;\u003c/a> its workforce was slashed in half earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-initiates-reduction-force\">dropping from about 4,100 employees to roughly 2,200\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the dismissed employees worked within the Federal Student Aid department and assisted with the technical administration of student loans, including handling disputes between borrowers and loan servicers and answering FAFSA questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk on campus at UC Berkeley in Berkeley on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The recent government shutdown has only made things worse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058230/government-shutdown-affect-student-loans-fafsa-education-department-2025\">furloughing about 87% of the department’s remaining workforce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practical impact? Expect longer wait times for processing income-driven repayment applications, employment certification for PSLF and responses to borrower disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news is you’re not on your own. While the federal government has scaled back support, there are still nonprofit organizations and state resources available to help you navigate your loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Consumer Law Center offers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nclc.org/issue/student-loans/\">Student Loan Borrower Assistance\u003c/a>, providing free information for people struggling with payments or dealing with default. Protect Borrowers focuses on existing pathways to debt cancellation through the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancelmystudentdebt.org/\">Cancel My Student Debt campaign\u003c/a>. And California borrowers have access to the state’s dedicated \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/contact-us/\">Student Loan Ombudsman\u003c/a>, who can help resolve disputes with loan servicers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These big structural problems, the fact that [borrowers] can’t afford their loan payment or that nobody will return their phone calls, this isn’t because they did something wrong,” Pierce added. “It’s scary for people that are staring down a bill they can’t afford. But this is a function of public policy. It’s not an individual failing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The federal student loan system is broken,” said Mike Pierce, Executive Director and co-founder of the legal advocacy group \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/\">Protect Borrowers\u003c/a>. “It’s been broken for decades, and lawmakers have failed to deal with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this uncertainty, here’s what to know if you’re a borrower in the process of paying off student debt — from the changes to federal loan forgiveness and income-driven repayment plans to the latest legal proceedings and how they might affect you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#Whataremyoptionsforincomedrivenrepayment\">What are my options for income-driven repayment?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#IworkforanonprofitorganizationCanIstillqualifyforPublicServiceLoanForgivenessPSLF\">I work for a nonprofit organization. Can I still qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ImenrolledintheSAVEplanWhatshouldIbedoing\">I’m enrolled in the SAVE plan. What should I be doing?\u003c/a> \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#HowwilltheOneBigBeautifulBillimpactmyloans\">How will the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ impact my loans?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#IthinkmyloanservicermadeamistakeWhatshouldIdo\">I think my loan servicer made a mistake. What should I do?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How did my student loans get so complicated?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/politics/coronavirus-student-loans-education-testing.html\">the federal government paused student loan payments and interest\u003c/a>, giving borrowers an unprecedented break that lasted over three years. Many Californians used that breathing room to pay down credit card debt, build up savings, and even open new lines of credit. Financial wellness metrics improved across the board, according to White and the California Policy Lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as pandemic-era supports ended and loan payments restarted, that relief has now given way to widespread confusion. Borrowers faced mixed messages about repayment deadlines, forgiveness options and which income-driven plans they could actually enroll in. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/business/biden-student-loans.html\">Federal loan forgiveness became a political hot potato during and after the 2020 election\u003c/a>, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/business/student-loan-pause-pandemic.html\">repayment deadlines rescheduled under President Donald Trump’s first term … and again\u003c/a> under President Joe Biden. And each delay created more uncertainty about when payments would resume and whether borrowers might qualify for relief, said Mike Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061284\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061284\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/033_KQED_SanFrancisco_SFSU_03112020_6923_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco State University on March 11, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then the legal battles began. The SAVE plan used by millions of student loan borrowers — along with several income-driven repayment options that predated this Biden-era plan — became embroiled in court challenges that have continued to drag on for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, student loan borrowers have found themselves stuck in limbo for most of 2025: unable to enroll in affordable repayment plans, unsure whether they qualify for loan forgiveness and unclear about the latest and most accurate guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a system where even borrowers who \u003cem>want \u003c/em>to pay are struggling to get a handle on their loans, according to Jonathan Glater, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-founder of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.slli.org/\">Student Loan Law Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the criticisms of this whole complicated edifice that we’ve got is that it’s very, very difficult for borrowers to navigate,” said Glater. “It is way too complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which borrowers are most affected right now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lower-income student loan borrowers are “mostly worse off than they were before the pandemic happened,” said the California Policy Lab’s White, who’s also a member of the research team that created and maintains the \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/california-credit-dashboard/\">California Credit Dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older borrowers are the most likely to be impacted in California, White added. According to the California Policy Lab. \u003ca href=\"https://capolicylab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Student-Loan-Delinquencies-Surging.pdf\">One possible reason for higher delinquency rates among older borrowers is that they typically owe a larger monthly payment\u003c/a> on their student loans. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The average Boomer with student debt owes $150 per month in student loan payments — 2.4 times that of the average Millennial ($62/month) and 5.8 times that of the average Gen Zer ($26/month). These loans may have been used to pay for their own education, one or more children’s education — or a combination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The financial burden hitting older borrowers might also be attributed in part to the way the federal loan repayment system works, said White.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loan repayment plans are designed to limit the amount of payments borrowers make to a fixed period of time. But after a long pandemic pause, borrowers may be resuming their payments with fewer monthly payments remaining — and a balance that hasn’t diminished, or has actually grown from interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result: higher monthly payments than what borrowers may have been paying even prior to pandemic assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"Whataremyoptionsforincomedrivenrepayment\">\u003c/a>What are my options for income-driven repayment?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After a two-month freeze, \u003ca href=\"https://studentloanborrowerassistance.org/idr-application-is-back-up/#2\">the Department of Education is now processing applications for income-driven repayment (IDR) plans again\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently four IDR plans available to borrowers with federal student loans. (Federal loans generally include “direct” or “federal” in the title, but you can find \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven#eligibility\">a complete list of eligible loan types here\u003c/a>, to make sure yours qualifies.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12047499 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/DepartofEducation-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Education is seen before the Safeguard Students, Empower Education Rally & Press Conference on April 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Pete Kiehart for The Washington Post via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s important to carefully compare plans, as each borrower’s situation is different. You can use this \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/loan-simulator/\">Federal Student Loan Simulator\u003c/a> to calculate and compare your monthly payments under each of the available federal IDR plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All IDR plans base your monthly loan payment on a percentage of your discretionary income, in combination with your family size. The exact percentage of your income and how long you will have to repay varies by plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven#repayment-period\">detailed information about all federal IDR plans here\u003c/a>, but here are the highlights at a glance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Capped at 10% of discretionary income, repaid over 20 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>New Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For eligible loans borrowed \u003cem>after \u003c/em>July 1, 2014\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Capped at 10% of discretionary income, repaid over 20 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Old Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>For eligible loans borrowed \u003cem>before \u003c/em>July 1, 2014\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Capped at 15% of discretionary income, repaid over 25 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) Plan\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Capped at 20% of discretionary income, repaid over 25 years\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/idr/\">Apply for an income-driven plan for the first time, or switch between plans, here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The benefits of income-driven repayment plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For some people, payments on an IDR plan can be as low as $0 per month. Others may be able to take advantage of another perk — exemption from interest on their loans — if their income-adjusted payments wouldn’t cover the interest accruing on their student loans each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IDR plans also operate on a fixed schedule, meaning you’re committed to repaying them over a period of 20 or 25 years — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65643/how-is-your-student-loan-repayment-affected-by-the-one-big-beautiful-bill\">although the new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) will offer a 30-year repayment period \u003c/a>beginning in 2028. While paying several decades of loan payments may not sound like your idea of a great time, any remaining loan balance could be forgiven outright if your federal student loans aren’t fully repaid by the end of this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drawbacks of income-driven repayment plans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before you celebrate loan forgiveness, be sure to read the fine print. Loan balances forgiven at the end of an IDR repayment period are actually subject to income tax — leading savvy borrowers to save for the \u003ca href=\"https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/changes-ahead-for-taxpayers-with-discharged-student-loan-debt/\">“tax bomb” that will accompany their emancipation from student debt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you enroll in an IDR plan, you should also set a reminder to update, or “recertify,” your income and family size every year, even if there has been no change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049948\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/AP25195724697543-scaled-e1764803931499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education Secretary Linda McMahon speaks during a Senate Appropriations hearing, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. \u003ccite>(Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The consequences for borrowers on IDR plans who don’t recertify their incomes are strict, as you could be removed from your plan and placed on an alternative plan where monthly payments are \u003cem>not \u003c/em>based on income, leading to higher monthly payments and resumed interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while you can reapply for your preferred IDR plan, recertification issues can cause delays in loan forgiveness, not to mention financial stress. The Department of Education warns that \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/status-of-idr-plan-application\">new applications for IDR plans typically take 30 days to process\u003c/a> – leaving you on the hook for any student loan payments and interest accrued in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/idr/\">Apply for an income-driven plan for the first time, or switch between plans, here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"IworkforanonprofitorganizationCanIstillqualifyforPublicServiceLoanForgivenessPSLF\">\u003c/a>I work for a nonprofit organization. Can I still qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you work for a nonprofit or government employer, Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) can be a powerful tool for managing your student debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how it works: make 120 qualifying monthly payments over a 10-year period while working full-time for a qualifying employer, and any remaining federal student loan debt gets forgiven — without that “tax bomb” of income-driven repayment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PSLF was created by Congress in 2007 specifically to help recruit and retain talented people in public service jobs that often pay less than private sector positions. More than 1 million public servants, from teachers, nurses and social workers to librarians and public defenders, had their loans forgiven through this program under the Biden administration. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-executive-order-student-loan-forgiveness.html\">President Donald Trump’s second administration is seeking to change who qualifies\u003c/a>. An executive order signed by Trump in March and set to take effect July 1, 2026, would allow the education secretary — not the courts or Congress — to deny loan forgiveness to workers whose employers engage in activities deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/10/31/2025-19729/william-d-ford-federal-direct-loan-direct-loan-program\">examples listed in the rule include\u003c/a> “aiding and abetting violations of Federal immigration laws” and providing certain types of gender-affirming care. San Francisco and several other cities are suing to block this rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protect Borrowers has been involved in filing several of these lawsuits, claiming that restricting public service loan forgiveness is “an attempt to target organizations and jurisdictions whose missions and policies do not align with [the Trump administration’s] political positions on immigration, race, gender, free speech, and public protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trump administration recognized that there’s real power in the federal government, because it is the creditor for 40 million people,” Pierce said. He is concerned that public service workers could lose access to loan forgiveness simply because their employer resisted federal immigration enforcement or maintained diversity, equity and inclusion programs — even though those local policies may be perfectly legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So amid this legal action, what should you do if you’re working toward PSLF forgiveness?\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Don’t wait\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Submit your employment certification forms now to get credit for the payments you’ve already made.\u003c/p>\n\u003col start=\"2\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Keep meticulous records \u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Your employment, every loan payment you’ve made — collect screenshots, confirmation emails, everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003col start=\"3\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong> Work extra-fast if you’re close to hitting that 120-payment mark\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Prioritize reaching that threshold before the July 2026 deadline when this rule takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re currently enrolled in SAVE, consider switching to another income-driven repayment plan to resume qualifying PSLF payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also pay attention to how this lawsuit unfolds, said Pierce. \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/litigation/pslf-lawsuit/\">The plaintiffs argue the Education Department is overstepping its authority and rewriting what Congress clearly defined as “public service” — any government job or 501(c)(3) nonprofit\u003c/a>. The courts will ultimately decide whether the secretary has the power to add political litmus tests to a program Congress designed to support all public service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, protect yourself by documenting everything and staying informed about your rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"ImenrolledintheSAVEplanWhatshouldIbedoing\">\u003c/a>I’m enrolled in the SAVE plan. Should I switch to another income-driven repayment option?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The SAVE plan was designed to be a lifeline — the most affordable income-driven repayment option the federal government had offered to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Promising shorter repayment periods, more generous income calculations that would lower monthly payments and a faster path to loan forgiveness for low-income borrowers, \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/new-court-filing-reveals-backlog-of-2-million-borrower-payment-plan-applications/#:~:text=Background,district%20court%20for%20further%20proceedings.\">the SAVE plan had eight million enrollees\u003c/a> as of May 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg\" alt='People hold signs reading \"Cancel Student Debt Now!\" in front of the columned facade of the supreme court.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KD-KQED-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student debt relief activists participate in a rally at the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Missouri and several other Republican-led states filed lawsuits challenging the SAVE repayment plan and arguing that the Biden administration had overstepped its authority beginning in spring 2024 — and \u003ca href=\"https://studentloanborrowerassistance.org/part-2-the-current-impact-on-borrowers-of-lawsuits-challenging-the-save-plan-and-the-removal-of-idr-applications/\">SAVE has been frozen in legal limbo ever since\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re enrolled in SAVE, here’s what’s happening with your loans right now: You haven’t been required to make payments since last summer while the case winds through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re in what’s known as “forbearance,” and while those months do count toward eventual income-driven repayment forgiveness (typically after 20 to 25 years), they don’t count as qualifying payments toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as of August, interest has resumed accruing — which means your balance will continue to grow each month, unless you make payments to offset the interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For borrowers working toward PSLF who are close to the 120-payment finish line, staying in SAVE means you’re losing time: those paused months won’t count, and \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/public-service-loan-forgiveness-buyback\">you may need to use a “buy back” option later to pay for these months retroactively\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news? You have options. Applications for other income-driven repayment plans — Income-Based Repayment, Pay as You Earn, and Income-Contingent Repayment — are now open again after a months-long delay. If you’re pursuing Public Service Loan Forgiveness, switching to one of these plans means your payments will start counting toward that 120-payment requirement again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’re simply trying to stop your balance from ballooning, moving to an active repayment plan gives you more control. The application process may take a few weeks, but for many borrowers — especially those close to PSLF eligibility or watching their interest pile up — making the switch may be worth it to get back on track.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowwilltheOneBigBeautifulBillimpactmyloans\">\u003c/a>How will the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ impact my loans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re a federal student loan borrower, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/text\">H.R.1 budget, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u003c/a>, that passed in July, included changes to the federal loan system that could impact you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SAVE plan is being shut down by July 1, 2028 — but so are two other income-driven repayment plans: Pay as You Earn (PAYE) and Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR). If you’re currently enrolled in either of these plans, you’ll need to switch before that deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12047827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12047827\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump bangs a gavel after signing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the White House on July 4. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Income-Based Repayment (IBR) plan, a Reagan-era program that was implemented by Congress, will remain available for current borrowers. Pierce said it’s worth considering now, especially since it offers loan forgiveness after 20 or 25 years instead of the 30 years required under the Trump administration’s proposed replacement plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) won’t be ready until next year, and key details haven’t been revealed yet — leaving borrowers with limited information to plan ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spending bill includes provisions that also affect future students: new borrowers taking out loans after July 1, 2026, will not have access to traditional income-driven repayment plans at all. They’ll be limited to the new RAP or a standard fixed-payment plan, both with far less flexibility than previous options. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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By capping federal borrowing without tackling affordability, the law may simply shift the burden from federal loans to private debt, he warned — or price students out of higher education entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear is that what we are seeing is a lifting of the ladder of higher ed opportunity higher, so it’ll be out of reach for more people,” said Glater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re planning for graduate school or helping a child pay for college, factor these new limits into your timeline and consider whether starting \u003cem>before \u003c/em>July 2026 would give you access to more generous borrowing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And document everything — experts caution that, considering the sheer volume of changes, and the Education Department operating with reduced staff, keeping detailed records of your loans, payments, and applications is more important than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"IthinkmyloanservicermadeamistakeWhatshouldIdo\">\u003c/a>I think my loan servicer made a mistake. 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These are companies contracted to administer and collect your loans, handle your payments, process paperwork for income-driven repayment plans and answer your questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11955727 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person with long hair and a black t-shirt holds up a bright yellow sign reading \"Cancel Student Debt\" amidst others doing similar.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230714-SUPREME-COURT-STUDENT-DEBT-Getty-KN-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a “Cancel Student Debt” sign outside of the Supreme Court of the United States after the nation’s high court stuck down President Biden’s student debt relief program in Washington, D.C. on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The problem? In their role as the middleman between you and the Department of Education, several \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-bans-navient-from-federal-student-loan-servicing-and-orders-the-company-to-pay-120-million-for-wide-ranging-student-lending-failures/\">loan servicers have made serious administrative errors\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2024/AFT%20v.%20MOHELA_Complaint%2007.22.2024.pdf\">have been targets of class action lawsuits for mishandling borrower accounts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hear the worst stories about lost paperwork, changing balances, the rules being rewritten for people right in the middle of paying their loans back when those loan companies change,” said Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve been repaying loans for a while, you’ve probably experienced at least one transfer of your debt from one servicer to another. 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Regularly check your account, verify your payment counts match your records, and if something looks off, speak up immediately. The more documentation you have, the easier it will be to prove an error and get it fixed, said Pierce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His advice for borrowers “that are just stuck” is to go to your lawmaker and \u003ca href=\"https://protectborrowers.org/resource/protect-borrowers-congressional-casework-tool/\">open up a case with your local member of Congress or your state senator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s only so much you can do with the current law, but for people that are stuck waiting on hold … or feel like they’ve been lied to by a student loan company, often going to your member of congress and opening up a case with them is the best way forward here,” he said, adding that Congressional casework can cut through red tape when the Education Department is overwhelmed or unresponsive.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>I need help navigating my student loans, but I’m not hearing back. Why?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031831/i-have-student-loans-what-should-i-do-during-these-department-of-education-cuts\">The Department of Education has been hit hard by cuts under the Trump administration;\u003c/a> its workforce was slashed in half earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-initiates-reduction-force\">dropping from about 4,100 employees to roughly 2,200\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the dismissed employees worked within the Federal Student Aid department and assisted with the technical administration of student loans, including handling disputes between borrowers and loan servicers and answering FAFSA questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250929_UCBERKELEY_GC-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk on campus at UC Berkeley in Berkeley on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The recent government shutdown has only made things worse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058230/government-shutdown-affect-student-loans-fafsa-education-department-2025\">furloughing about 87% of the department’s remaining workforce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The practical impact? 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"content": "\u003cp>Recalled Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> announced Thursday that she will run for the position again in 2026, just over a year after she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">ousted from the office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The progressive civil rights prosecutor was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931436/alameda-county-da\">elected in 2022\u003c/a> after campaigning on promises to take on racial inequity in the criminal justice system. Her administration opposed cash bail and charging youths as adults, and promised to seek alternatives to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come here today because I stand in the gap for vulnerable communities,” Price said, launching her campaign in Hayward. “Alameda County wants real justice that does not bend for wealth status or political connections. I will be the district attorney who puts people first. I will go after corporate criminals, and I will hold law enforcement officers accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was recalled by nearly 63% of voters in November 2024, amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012651/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price\">frustration over rising crime in Oakland \u003c/a>and other cities, and criticism from families of crime victims in the county who said her office issued overly lenient sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall supporters alleged that she engaged in anti-Asian discrimination and extortion and raised concerns about hundreds of misdemeanor cases Price’s office failed to prosecute. 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Grisham added that crime rates in the county had gone down since Price’s removal, though that \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2025-update/\">reflects\u003c/a> national trends in the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham, victim’s advocate and leader of the recall campaign, speaks during a press conference outside of Hayward City Hall in Hayward on Oct. 2, 2024, announcing Congressman Eric Swalwell’s support for the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community will never allow her back in power,” Grisham said. “My commitment has never changed, my priority has always been, and will always be, to protect the victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to remove Price from office launched just seven months after she was sworn in, and was primarily funded by wealthy donors with connections to real estate and the tech industry. In particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966518/pamela-price-recall-alameda-potential#pamelapricerecallbackers\">Philip Dreyfuss, a hedge fund partner\u003c/a> at Farallon Capital Management, LLC, funded a group called “Reviving the Bay Area,” which donated $300,000 to the recall effort. Dreyfuss also funded the successful effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">oust Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> in the same election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall garnered support from the county’s 13 law enforcement unions, the prosecutor’s association and East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell. Price’s recall was also endorsed by the editorial boards of the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the effort and since her ouster, Price has called the recall a ploy by a small, wealthy group who opposed her 2022 victory.[aside postID=news_12042693 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62298_IMG_4732-qut-1020x640.jpg']“In 2025, we see the carnage to our federal government caused by the billionaire class at the federal level,” Price said. “In 2024 in Alameda County, we saw that same carnage, the destabilization of our justice system by a billionaire — a single billionaire — and his wannabe wealthy friends, who spent millions of dollars on a recall campaign to destabilize our justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Price was replaced by a more moderate DA, Ursula Jones Dickson, a former Alameda County deputy district attorney and superior court judge. Since taking office, she has undone some of Price’s more progressive reforms, including reinstating mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possession, restructuring Price’s landmark Police Accountability Unit, formed to review police misconduct cases and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">withdrawing\u003c/a> death row resentencing efforts for people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price launched investigations into 35 cases after her office revealed evidence suggesting prior district attorneys had covered up a decades-long practice of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her announcement Thursday, Price accused Jones-Dickson of refusing 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was recalled by nearly 63% of voters in November 2024, amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012651/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price\">frustration over rising crime in Oakland \u003c/a>and other cities, and criticism from families of crime victims in the county who said her office issued overly lenient sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall supporters alleged that she engaged in anti-Asian discrimination and extortion and raised concerns about hundreds of misdemeanor cases Price’s office failed to prosecute. Last October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">charges were dismissed\u003c/a> against two former Alameda officers who were charged in connection with the 2021 death of a man who was pinned to the ground during an attempted arrest after Price’s office missed the filing deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pamela Price abandoned victims and betrayed families,” recall leader Brenda Grisham said in a statement Thursday. Grisham added that crime rates in the county had gone down since Price’s removal, though that \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2025-update/\">reflects\u003c/a> national trends in the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham, victim’s advocate and leader of the recall campaign, speaks during a press conference outside of Hayward City Hall in Hayward on Oct. 2, 2024, announcing Congressman Eric Swalwell’s support for the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community will never allow her back in power,” Grisham said. “My commitment has never changed, my priority has always been, and will always be, to protect the victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to remove Price from office launched just seven months after she was sworn in, and was primarily funded by wealthy donors with connections to real estate and the tech industry. In particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966518/pamela-price-recall-alameda-potential#pamelapricerecallbackers\">Philip Dreyfuss, a hedge fund partner\u003c/a> at Farallon Capital Management, LLC, funded a group called “Reviving the Bay Area,” which donated $300,000 to the recall effort. Dreyfuss also funded the successful effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">oust Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> in the same election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall garnered support from the county’s 13 law enforcement unions, the prosecutor’s association and East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell. Price’s recall was also endorsed by the editorial boards of the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the effort and since her ouster, Price has called the recall a ploy by a small, wealthy group who opposed her 2022 victory.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In 2025, we see the carnage to our federal government caused by the billionaire class at the federal level,” Price said. “In 2024 in Alameda County, we saw that same carnage, the destabilization of our justice system by a billionaire — a single billionaire — and his wannabe wealthy friends, who spent millions of dollars on a recall campaign to destabilize our justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Price was replaced by a more moderate DA, Ursula Jones Dickson, a former Alameda County deputy district attorney and superior court judge. Since taking office, she has undone some of Price’s more progressive reforms, including reinstating mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possession, restructuring Price’s landmark Police Accountability Unit, formed to review police misconduct cases and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">withdrawing\u003c/a> death row resentencing efforts for people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price launched investigations into 35 cases after her office revealed evidence suggesting prior district attorneys had covered up a decades-long practice of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her announcement Thursday, Price accused Jones-Dickson of refusing to stand up to President Donald Trump and called out her decision to withdraw some of the death row resentencing motions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adamant in June that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">she wasn’t contemplating a 2026 run\u003c/a>, Price said Thursday that she felt compelled, given the current national landscape and dissatisfaction with Alameda County’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066181\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, 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victims regardless of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said local law enforcement could not stop federal officials from coming into Alameda County or exercising a legal warrant, and when asked on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061157/how-alameda-countys-da-would-handle-federal-troops-in-oakland\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> whether she would prosecute federal agents who broke the law amid immigration raids, Jones Dickson sidestepped the question, saying, “I need to know what that looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, we move in silence,” she continued. “There are things we can do to prepare and protect our citizens without screaming it out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said if reelected, she would “not hesitate to enforce the laws to protect our residents, to protect our immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Mayor Daniel Lurie has selected San Francisco Police Department veteran Derrick Lew as chief of police, replacing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">interim Chief Paul Yep\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lew’s appointment of the San Francisco native comes as the city has struggled to fully staff its police force. But it also comes as crime rates in the city have plummeted in recent years, following a challenging pandemic period where multiple crimes against Asian Americans put community members on edge. The 52-year-old has served various roles in the department for nearly two decades and now will steer the city’s public safety efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the honor of a lifetime to lead the San Francisco Police Department — the gold standard in policing,” Lew said in a statement. “I have tremendous admiration for the men and women of this department, who risk their lives every day to protect our city. We are safer because of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lew has worked at the city’s Ingleside, Bayview and Mission police stations and later became captain of the Ingleside station in 2022. He was later promoted to commander and ran the city’s Drug Market Agency Coordinating Center, an effort started by former Mayor London Breed to bring together various city agencies to tackle outdoor drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, he led the city’s Field Operations Bureau and served as deputy chief under Yep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has shown remarkable leadership throughout his career across multiple units in our department,” Yep said in a statement. “The hard-working men and women of this department will have support at the highest levels as public safety continues to improve in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incoming Police Chief Derrick Lew (left) and Mayor Daniel Lurie (right) during at a press conference outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yep has worked closely with Lurie’s administration since his early days on the campaign trail, and was selected as his Chief of Public Safety before serving as interim chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Derrick Lew has been shaped by this city, earning his stripes on the street and earning trust in communities across the city. He knows this city, he knows this department, and he knows the communities we serve,” Lurie said in a statement. “Public safety is my top priority, and it will always be my top priority. Everything we’re trying to achieve as a city depends on people feeling safe in our neighborhoods, in our businesses, and on our streets and transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie picked Lew from a list of candidates put forward by the Police Commission, which oversees the department. The city and the commission worked with the search firm Ralph Andersen & Associates to conduct a nationwide search, and ultimately landed on Lew, who commissioners and representatives from the police union said is well regarded within the department.[aside postID=news_12065576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251201-NEWSFSUPERVISOR-12-BL-KQED.jpg']“The SFPOA is elated with Mayor Lurie’s choice in Derek Lew becoming the next chief of police for this great city,” said Louis Wong, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association. “Chief Lew is well respected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commissioner Kevin Benedicto told KQED that he hopes the new chief will stay laser-focused on continuing the decline in violent and property crime, as well as internal department accountability and reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His service record in the department is quite exemplary. He was awarded the medal of valor earlier in his career and has a lot of respect among the rank and file,” Benedicto said. “He’s committed to a fully staffed department, as are all of the commissioners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/derrick-lew-police-chief-21197383.php\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> reported that the new police chief was part of a shootout in 2006 involving a gunman who had just killed two people. Lew’s partner at the time shot and killed the suspect, who was later identified as Charles Breed, the cousin of former Mayor London Breed. Breed has not publicly weighed in on the selection of Lew as chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lew will be the first permanent police chief since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12039092/san-franciscos-police-chief-stepping-down\">former Chief Bill Scott stepped down\u003c/a> earlier this year. Both the department and the Police Officers Association will now be led by Asian American men, as is the city’s Sheriff’s Department, currently led by Paul Miyamoto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lew is the right leader at the right time,” said Rex Tabora, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Community Center, in a statement. “During a tragic incident involving an individual in crisis, he personally reached out to ensure my staff and clients were safe and informed. His care, steady leadership, and commitment to the community were clear then—and they are exactly what will guide the department forward now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lew will step into a well-resourced department whose budget has grown to $840 million. The city also voted in March 2024 to allow police to use enhanced technology, including drones, and has cut down on reporting requirements for officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As chief, I will continue acting with urgency to get more officers into the department, to attack the drug crisis, to improve street conditions, and to ensure San Francisco remains one of the safest cities in the country,” Lew said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lew has worked at the city’s Ingleside, Bayview and Mission police stations and later became captain of the Ingleside station in 2022. He was later promoted to commander and ran the city’s Drug Market Agency Coordinating Center, an effort started by former Mayor London Breed to bring together various city agencies to tackle outdoor drug dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, he led the city’s Field Operations Bureau and served as deputy chief under Yep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has shown remarkable leadership throughout his career across multiple units in our department,” Yep said in a statement. “The hard-working men and women of this department will have support at the highest levels as public safety continues to improve in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/DerrickLewKQED2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incoming Police Chief Derrick Lew (left) and Mayor Daniel Lurie (right) during at a press conference outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Dec. 4, 2025.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yep has worked closely with Lurie’s administration since his early days on the campaign trail, and was selected as his Chief of Public Safety before serving as interim chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Derrick Lew has been shaped by this city, earning his stripes on the street and earning trust in communities across the city. He knows this city, he knows this department, and he knows the communities we serve,” Lurie said in a statement. “Public safety is my top priority, and it will always be my top priority. Everything we’re trying to achieve as a city depends on people feeling safe in our neighborhoods, in our businesses, and on our streets and transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie picked Lew from a list of candidates put forward by the Police Commission, which oversees the department. The city and the commission worked with the search firm Ralph Andersen & Associates to conduct a nationwide search, and ultimately landed on Lew, who commissioners and representatives from the police union said is well regarded within the department.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump\u003c/a> administration is instructing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-park-service\">National Park Service\u003c/a> leaders to review their gift shops for “equity-related” content by Dec. 19, according to a memo obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo, signed by National Park Service Acting Director Jessica Bowron in late November and sent out to staff this week, directs national park staff to “review all retail items available for purchase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the memo, the merchandise review complies with January 2025 executive orders from President Donald Trump and the Department of the Interior that address what the White House calls “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” related to DEI and what the administration terms “Gender Ideology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, national park advocacy groups expressed frustration at what they see as the Trump administration’s latest attempt to weaponize the country’s treasured public lands — and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">rewrite history in favor of their political ideology. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going after gift shops is just one part of the administration’s deeply troubling pattern of silencing science and hiding history in our parks,” said National Parks Conservation Association Senior Director Alan Spears in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066068\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066068\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlacierGiftShopMontanaGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlacierGiftShopMontanaGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlacierGiftShopMontanaGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/GlacierGiftShopMontanaGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tourists shopping at the gift shop of the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park, Montana. \u003ccite>(Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Park Service staff should be managing parks, not censorship campaigns,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One park service superintendent, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation and losing their job, said the communication they’ve received from higher-ups clarifies that national park staff will not only have to review, but also carry out the removal of content by the deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to KQED’s questions about the memo, the Interior Department confirmed in an email that it is “conducting a common-sense review of retail items to ensure our gift shops remain neutral spaces that serve all visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If any items are found to be inconsistent with the Order, they are being removed from sale,” a department spokesperson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Merchandise now in spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The memo is the latest issued this year, following a directive over the summer requiring parks to review their signage and bookstores for materials that “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12055659/national-park-service-california-yosemite-muir-woods-trump-executive-order\">inappropriately disparage Americans past or living\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That order focused on content that casts Americans in a negative light, which resulted in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes\">removal of a sign at Muir Woods National Monument\u003c/a> spotlighting the contributions of Indigenous people and women to the park, among others.[aside postID=news_12065737 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/YosemiteGetty.jpg']The order also targeted \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/09/15/national-parks-slavery-information-removal/\">slavery-related exhibits\u003c/a> at multiple East Coast parks, and, according to the author of a book on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/obi.kaufmann/posts/pfbid0dhWpb5Nun9cfhhco31CoyXdmuqRVY9ZuVThLpz8KrwEjeWVFh4VQxAag4LcA3Cp2l\">California’s water crisis\u003c/a>, led to Yosemite National Park halting purchases of their work to sell in the gift shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That widespread effort to review parks’ content is still underway, and the additional merchandise content under review includes anything that highlights diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility or environmental justice, according to the November memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo instructed national park staff to notify the groups that run gift shops, often concessionaires or nonprofit partners, of the review requirement and coordinate with them in the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff were also instructed not just to review any materials currently on display in park bookstores, but also all merchandise plans, including materials on backorder or currently out of stock, according to the superintendent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff do not have to read books for sale in parks in their entirety to perform the review, according to the anonymous superintendent. Instead, they said, staff are directed to scan a book’s title and table of contents for any “equity-related” content.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Guidance without guidance’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>NPS staff are now tasked with completing their own review of materials, which may include removing some items to review them. Any materials found to be “non-compliant” must be removed from sale immediately, according to the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent said it has been frustrating to continue receiving this “guidance without guidance,” which leaves determining concepts like “equity-related” up to the interpretation of NPS staff. “It’s not easy, depending on the content of your park,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without further guidance, it’s putting a lot of pressure on, ultimately, the park superintendents to make these decisions about removing,” the superintendent continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029489\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029489\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/CaliforniaPublicLandsGetty1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer for the National Park Service welcomes visitors at the Exploration Center in Yosemite Valley, at Yosemite National Park on March 1, 2025. \u003ccite>(Laure Andrillon/AFP via Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And book-removing can be, in general, pretty controversial with the public. So, when the public gets mad that something’s removed, the [Department of Interior] can say, ‘Oh, well, the superintendent chose that and they chose the wrong thing. 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