How Should Democrats Handle Student Loan Payments?

Eric Medlin
4 min readDec 15, 2021

There is a politically expedient solution. It remains to be seen whether Democrats will support it.

Joe Biden speaking in December about his Build Back Better legislation. Source: CNBC

Despite the ongoing threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States government has moved steadily away from the many programs it introduced in 2020 to combat the pandemic’s impact. It has ended extended unemployment benefits and stopped payments to businesses as part of…

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Eric Medlin

I’m a writer interested in the intersections of history, ideas, and politics. I publish every week. www.twitter.com/medlinwrites