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Black Americans still have more than double the poverty rate of white Americans, which could exacerbate existing inequality.

President Joe Biden has thrown his support behind $10,000 in student loan forgiveness. But a quarter of Americans want it all forgiven.

For families with two children and two parents working at the minimum wage, current minimums in every state are below a living wage, and so is $15.

Why Democrats want to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2025 Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Democrats are proposing raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 by 2025. The gradual increase would help businesses and lower-wage areas adjust to a higher minimum. In some states, $15 is more than double the current rate — just 29 states have rates above the federal minimum. There's been a lot of discussion around raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Currently, there's two possible routes for Democrats to pass the wage hike: as a standalo...

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss the movement to cancel student debt. More than 43 million borrowers owe a collective $1.7 trillion in student debt