'We're fighting for economic justice both inside and outside of the workplace, and canceling student loan debt is a necessary part of that,' said SBWorkersUnited.
since the start of Biden's presidency for a minimum of $50,000 in student debt cancellation per borrower and preferably a total jubilee.
urging Biden"to strengthen the economy, tackle racial disparities, and provide much-needed relief to help all Americans weather the pandemic and record inflation by using executive authority to cancel federal student debt immediately."Some labor groups, especially teachers' unions, were already vocal proponents of widespread debt relief. But the issue is now attracting support from a far broader swath of organized labor.
The broad union backing may provide Biden with some political cover and help counter concerns, even from some Democrats, that student debt cancellation will be perceived as elitist by voters who never attended college. Biden himself has perpetuated the falsehood that broad-based student debt cancellation would disproportionately benefit the presumably affluent graduates of top private universities,town hall last year that he doesn't want to erase"billions of dollars in debt for people who have gone to Harvard and Yale and Penn."
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