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The case for student debt relief is getting weaker

Stimulus success means tradeoffs are real again

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Matthew Yglesias
Feb 22, 2021
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I’m getting more skeptical of student debt relief, which has been a renewed flashpoint ever since Joe Biden poured some cold water on it at a town hall. The reason is that two big things have changed since I last addressed this on December 4 — Democrats won the Georgia Senate races, and the Biden administration seems to have succeeded in convincing mode…

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