Biden Student Loan Plan Backfire: Most
Call It A Political Move — And Unfair:
I&I/TIPP Poll
Posted By: RockyTCB, 9/21/2022 6:38:33 AM
No doubt, President Joe Biden and his advisers believed student-loan forgiveness would be a big winner in the upcoming midterm elections. If so, it was a political miscalculation, with most Americans rejecting the idea as unfair and a political stunt, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows. Under Biden’s plan, unveiled in late August, he will cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for those who had have Pell Grants and up to $10,000 in debt for those earn less than $125,000 per year, $250,000 for married couples. By a margin of 59% to 32%, Americans agreed that Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan “is unfair to those
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Biden Student Loan Plan Backfire: Most
Call It A Political Move — And Unfair:
I&I/TIPP Poll 7 replies
Call It A Political Move — And Unfair:
I&I/TIPP Poll 7 replies
No doubt, President Joe Biden and his advisers believed student-loan forgiveness would be a big winner in the upcoming midterm elections. If so, it was a political miscalculation, with most Americans rejecting the idea as unfair and a political stunt, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
Under Biden’s plan, unveiled in late August, he will cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for those who had have Pell Grants and up to $10,000 in debt for those earn less than $125,000 per year, $250,000 for married couples.
By a margin of 59% to 32%, Americans agreed that Biden’s student-loan forgiveness plan “is unfair to those
Joe Biden Puts Humpty Dumpty To Shame
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The Bidenomics Sham Is Collapsing
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with Dems on oil and gas permitting, he
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