Advocates from SoCal are joined by national players to urge student debt relief as Supreme Court begins oral arguments.
Jonathon Herrera never had a room of his own before he moved into his dorm at Santa Clara University. The first in his family to go to a university, he got a full scholarship. As a son of undocumented low-income immigrants in East Los Angeles he still had to work — and needed more than $10,000 in loans.
The Monday sit in was hosted by We The 45 Million, MoveOn.org and Rise, and included student borrowers sharing their stories about their debts, a jazz and drum band performance, and late night eats. “A lot of students that we interact with have to deal with housing insecurity or food insecurity,” Williams said. “We don’t really set up young people up for success oftentimes when they’re in the pursuit of higher education. While they’re also facing some pretty severe economic hardship, they’re also accumulating thousands of dollars in student loan debt at the same time … this is a fight for their lives and it’s the fight for their future.
The Biden Administration argues that a 2003 law grants the executive branch the power to discharge the federal student loan debt in the event of a national emergency such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
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