biden's student loan forgiveness plan with jared bass of the center for american progress and preston cooper of the foundation for research on equal opportunity. then, in our spotlight on podcasts segment, we

host: we are joined by jared bass of the center for american progress and preston cooper of the foundation for research article opportunity. they join us for a chat about president biden student loan forgiveness plan. good morning. guest: good morning. host: preston, can you start by telling us what is the foundation for research on equal opportunity and let us know how you approach this topic of student debt forgiveness? guest: thank you. the foundation for research on equal opportunity, we are a market east organization that we want -- market east organization that we want to improve the lives of people who leased have opportunity. we are focused on lowering the cost of college, health care, energy, pocketbook issues that are affecting americans. my perspective on the student loan forgiveness plan, announced by president biden this week, and just as a refresher, it will forgive the $20,000 of student debt for pell grant recipients, $10,000 for everybody else, and it would also reform repayments going forward so that people will pay either half or less on their student loans going forward

host: we are joined by jared bass of the center for american progress and preston cooper of the foundation for research article opportunity. they join us for a chat about president biden student loan forgiveness plan. good morning.

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host: another angle brought up by preston cooper. from the research of equal opportunity. a column on the wall street journal. it reads in part, now that biden has opened the debt cancellation floodgates, the republican lawmakers have introduced a house bill to invoke the education departments ability to cancel student loans. they want to revoke that ability. the bil >> we will leave it here to go live to a discussion on youth sentencing reform with liz ryan, focusing on a decline in youth crime. this is live coverage on c-span. >> this discussion is important. you will your from the smartest people i know, partners in our work and they are each facing their own challenges in reforming our deeply flawed you justice system. and is a hopeful system. you all know we are joined by our friend liz ryan, the administrator of the office of juvenile justice and prevention, we have not only an expert in this but someone who cares deeply about all of our kids. i regularly talk to people, advocates, legislators, public defenders, reporters, who repeat the same story about the fear of

if you want to read more from preston cooper in his column and the wall street journal. this is kevin from the line of people who paid off their loans. caller: i think i had about 3500 . i did four years in the navy. maybe they should pay me for that. when i was in school, i worked. i had two jobs. one of them i was full-time to housesit and take care of an elderly lady's house. i have a two year degree in science. eventually, that turned into about $90,000 a year before i retired. it was a serious thing for me. when i went to school i said what can i get a job in? what would be a good job, something that will be able to pay my bills? my first apartment when i got out of school was a one room efficiency apartment for three years before i paid off my student loan. i bought one new car in my lifetime. another one that was owned by one other person. i lived within my means and i think other people should do that. my spring breaks were working. that is pretty much what i have to say. i worked for what i achieved. nobody gave me anything. host: this is jimbo out of bakersfiel

let's go to preston cooper, the senior fellow foundation for research on equal opportunity. ere. that last part that hillary got into where if the administration went ahead and forgave the loans, they'd strike it or have the government strike from your credit report, that gets a little weird. what do you think? >> it certainly does get a little bit weird. this so-called operation fresh start basically the biden administration is planning one student loan payments resumed to take the 7.5 million borrowers in default before the student loan payment pause started and basically clear that default from their credit histories. this is a bit of a mixed bag so on the one hand, that means if you're out of default, the federal government is no longer going to garnish your wages, it's no longer going to take your social security benefits, which would benefit a lot of people but on the other hand as mentioned earlier, this would give you the right to take out new loans from the federal government. we would basically be allowing people who have demonstrated that they're going to default o

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crashing her car into a mar vista if you're buying ring video captures the stars blue mini cooper flying down prestonay around 11 friday morning. and then moments later, you hear the car crashed into this house. i was groped avenue. authorities say she blew through a stop sign at a t intersection and instead of going left or right, continued straight hit the curb when airborne and flew into the house, her car burst into flames which quickly engulfed the residents. we had a solo vehicle that was well inside about 30 feet deep inside of a single-family dwelling home and erupted into flames. a next door neighbor tells us the car stopped just a few feet from where this woman, the resident of the house was sitting. she's in shock. she was lucky. she can't. >> the car came within 2 feet of hitting her when all the way through the house to the back of the house. and she was sitting there with her 2 dogs. >> firefighters rescued hayes from her burning car as well as the home's resident and her pets from the burning hells. authorities say, hey, she was rushed to the hospital with severe burns to your body. we

crashing her car into a mar vista if you're buying ring video captures the stars blue mini cooper flying down preston way around 11 friday morning. and then moments later, you hear the car crashed into this house. i was groped avenue. authorities say she blew through a stop sign at a t intersection and instead of going left or right, continued straight hit the curb when airborne and flew into the house, her car burst into flames which quickly engulfed the residents. we had a solo vehicle that was well inside about 30 feet deep inside of a single-family dwelling home and erupted into flames. a next door neighbor tells us the car stopped just a few feet from where this woman, the resident of the house was sitting. she's in shock. she was lucky. she can't. >> the car came within 2 feet of hitting her when all the way through the house to the back of the house. and she was sitting there with her 2 dogs. >> firefighters rescued hayes from her burning car as well as the home's resident and her pets from the burning hells. authorities say, hey, she was rushed to the hospital with severe burns to your body.

crashing her car into a mar vista if you're buying ring video captures the stars blue mini cooper flying down preston way around 11 friday morning. and then moments later, you hear the car crashed into this house. i was groped avenue. authorities say she blew through a stop sign at a t intersection and instead of going left or right, continued straight hit the curb when airborne and flew into the house, her car burst into flames which quickly engulfed the residents. we had a solo vehicle that was well inside about 30 feet deep inside of a single-family dwelling home and erupted into flames. a next door neighbor tells us the car stopped just a few feet from where this woman, the resident of the house was sitting. she's in shock. she was lucky. she can't. >> the car came within 2 feet of hitting her when all the way through the house to the back of the house. and she was sitting there with her 2 dogs. >> firefighters rescued hayes from her burning car as well as the home's resident and her pets from the burning hells. authorities say, hey, she was rushed to the hospital with severe burns to your body.