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Problem." i'm so glad to have you, what it's going to mean for the bigger picture and the bigger problem when it comes to the education system in this country and access to education. talk to us a little bit about that, how this might just be the first step but what more needs to happen. >> yeah, when you think about the sort of higher education, there are a couple of issues that we had -- that we have had for the last several decades. one of them is the sort of student loan debt crisis. what do you do with the people who have already taken on student loan debt. but the second part of it is ho...

It's an investment that pays off for most people, not everyone. there's a lot of fly by night operations that produce degrees, but are worthless, a lot of students never graduate, they take on the debt, and never get the benefit of the degree. this doesn't solve any of that. some of the changes that were announced will effectively make college cheaper for people in the sense that the changes to the income driven repayment programs will cap the payments that people make by month, essentially, and then have their balance forgiven much sooner than the case under kushcurrent. maybe colleges raise ...

Federal government to get untraceable ghost guns off the streets. cbs' jeff pegues shows us why these guns are so dangerous. >> reporter: this is a ghost gun. it's something that can be produced on a printer. and you can get it for less than $200. >> o'donnell: and we've all heard about the summer slump. but what impact did the pandemic have on america's school children? the startling details with cbs' meg oliver. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. tonight...

Policy, so people can move on with their lives. >> policy meaning canceling debt. so how much debt, and how do you apply it in a fair way that, you know, anyone who has debt can feel like it was meaningful? there are some who went to private school and have six figure debt versus those who have only, only in quotations, you know, $15,000 debt. >> right. i know. it is sad we say only with 15. we need to cancel as much debt as we possibly can. while income limits may seem fair, they cause application. and that application process as we have seen time and time again with repayment programs, with ...

Type of grace period so that borrowers who miss a payment during the first few months of repayment don't get dinged on their credit reports. they're looking at ways to make it easier for borrowers to enroll in and stay enrolled in income-based repayment programs that keep their payments affordable. they're trying to do some target outreach campaigns to particularly at-risk borrowers and they're also looking at a broader strategy of erasing millions of defaults from borrowers who fell behind before the pandemic trying to give them a fresh start as payments begin. >> look, this is something we h...