her work is available at washingtonpost.com. the idea of student loan forgiveness -- caller: i like the idea of forgiving the loan but i think you should have something a person should pay back. 100 hours of community service for every $10,000 forgiven. a person can accomplish that in two years. host: what about that idea? guest: that is similar to something candidate joe biden campaigned on. this program is supposed to offer loan forgiveness after 10 years of work within the public sector or the nonprofit space. it has had lots of problems in terms of people thinking they were making qualified payments and finding out they were not. that is what i mean by needing to reform the structure in place. there are different forms of programs that involve some level of debt forgiveness based on service. all of those programs have lots of faults that make it very easy for folks, even the most well-meaning folks to fall through the cracks. host: georgia, all supporting this idea of forgiving student loans. caller: this is timely and neede

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read more at washingtonpost.com.iewer response on social media -- this one says "great speech addressing real issues." boomer says i am worried about earmarks and infrastructure will collide into another era of crony capitalism. it was so great to hear actual policies from a normal human being, says deborah. and it was great to see an american president being presidential and not encouraging separatism and bigotry. we can disagree without demonizing each other. let's hear from decatur ville, tennessee. this is bridget. hello there. caller: i'm from the south and i am white, but we are not all racist. the south, more black people are racist than white people. if you are a good person and you are nice, they totally accept you. but when people keep talking about white supremacists -- she said white supremacists was in america, the terrorists. new york city, they did not run into the pentagon, they did not shoot up a nightclub in florida. what they are saying -- what they are not saying is white supremacists and the kkk

her work is available at washingtonpost.com.a of student loan forgiveness -- caller: i like the idea of forgiving the loan but i think you should have something a person should pay back. 100 hours of community service for every $10,000 forgiven. a person can accomplish that in two years. host: what about that idea? guest: that is similar to something candidate joe biden campaigned on. this program is supposed to offer loan forgiveness after 10 years of work within the public sector or the nonprofit space. it has had lots of problems in terms of people thinking they were making qualified payments and finding out they were not. that is what i mean by needing to reform the structure in place. there are different forms of programs that involve some level of debt forgiveness based on service. all of those programs have lots of faults that make it very easy for folks, even the most well-meaning folks to fall through the cracks. host: georgia, all supporting this idea of forgiving student loans. caller: this is timely and needed discus