WASHINGTON The US Senate on Wednesday evening approved a power-sharing resolution that allows Democrats to take chairmanships of committees in the evenly split upper chamber.
Democrats $50,000 student loan forgiveness plan would make 36 million borrowers debt-free CNBC 2/4/2021 Annie Nova
The Senate s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Democrats on Thursday put forward a resolution calling on President Joe Biden to forgive $50,000 in student debt for all borrowers.
The plan would cancel all of the debt for 80% of federal student loan borrowers.
Women and people of color would be among the biggest winners.
Democrats are pushing to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt
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The Senate s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer of New York, along with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and other Democratic legislators on Thursday, reintroduced a resolution again calling on the White House to forgive $50,000 in student debt for all borrowers by executive action.
Jeffrey Donnelly was a 22-year-old college student when he was arrested on a felony charge for possessing a two-inch-tall marijuana plant in 1997 an arrest that is still affecting his life today.
The 45-year-old Florida native says the tiny plant was growing out of a coffee cup on his back porch when Brevard County sheriff s deputies came across it while dealing with his roommate for an unrelated matter. The plant would have never lived, Donnelly says. I was a college kid and didn t know what I was doing.
But almost 25 years later, the conviction for cultivation a third-degree felony still prevents him from easily finding housing or employment, even though cannabis is now legal in medicinal and/or recreational form in a majority of states.