Recall its illegal eviction moratorium and vaccine and mask mandates. Do what you want until the courts say it’s illegal. This seems to be the Administration’s guiding legal principle. Clyburn explained, “So my whole thing is, use your executive authority and let the courts have at it.” But they want him to do it anyway and dare courts to stop him. Progressives also claim that President Biden has legal authority to cancel debt. Some 97% of borrowers aren’t paying down their loans. The median earnings for a borrower who enrolled a decade ago is $27,644, and debt for those who completed their degrees is $31,450. Morris College in Sumter, S.C., has a 25% graduation rate. Clyburn may also be trying to assist historically black college and universities with less than stellar student outcomes. Many colleges require students to fund their PhDs-which can take six to seven years to complete-yet doctorate recipients in the humanities in 2019 earned $53,000 on average. Wasn’t higher education supposed to be an investment? Well, it’s not paying off for millions of Americans, especially those with expensive graduate degrees.
Clyburn said as much in an interview with Bloomberg: “When you see a student coming out of college-law school or professional schools-with $130,000, $150,000 in debt, that cripples the economy in more ways than one.” The borrowers Democrats really want to help are white-collar workers with advanced degrees who account for 56% of the $1.6 trillion in federal student debt. More than half of borrowers owe less than $20,000 in debt.
If she were a company, the Federal Trade Commission could sue her for false advertising. Says 40% of borrowers with student loan debt never completed college. Hence they now say that canceling $50,000 per borrower will be a boon for the working class. Progressives seem to have figured out that sweeping student loan forgiveness isn’t popular with Americans who didn’t go to college or who repaid their loans.