✊🤖 Welcome to episode 22, where we discuss the weight of student loan debts and how they affect marginalized groups and the youth in our country. Listen along as we have an open and relatable conversation with our panelists about student loans and tuition evolution over the decades and personal experiences surrounding them. This podcast is broadcast live every Sunday on Youtube; please subscribe!

Related Petitions

• Continue Student Loan Repayment Freeze and Cancel Student Debt
• Cancel 50k in Student Loan Debt
• POTUS: Extend the Pause on Student Loan Debt
• POTUS: Cancel Student Loan Debt Now
• POTUS: Cancel 50k in Student Loan Debt Now
• Cancel Student Loan Debt
• Or, write your own: text FEDERAL to 50409

Mentioned on the Air

• The Crushing Weight Of The Mortar Board by Susan Stutz
• POTUS: Use Executive Orders to Close the "Boyfriend Loophole"

Go Deeper on the Issue

• Here are the benefits of erasing $1.6 trillion, no strings attached.
• The jury's still out on that $1.6 trillion in student loan debt
• Whitehouse Introduces Bills to Grant Student Loan Forgiveness to Frontline Health Workers and Teachers
• Dems fret Biden's inaction on student debt will burn in midterms
• More than 60% of voters support some student loan debt forgiveness
• Student Loan Debt is a Gender Issue
• Deeper in Debt: Women & Student Loans

This Week’s Panel

• Melanie
• Athena
• Susan
• Christine

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:56 Melanie Introduces the Show
• 2:05 Introducing the Panel
• 2:07 Athena Fulay
• 2:45 Susan Stutz
• 3:05 Christine Lu
• 4:36 Student Loan Debt Over The Years
• 7:25 Student Loan Debt and Women
• 10:08 Tuition: Past vs. Present
• 18:37 Student Loan Forgiveness
• 21:28 Pell Grants
• 25:27 Petitions and Student Loans
• 30:15 Eyes on This! Panelist’s Petitions
• 37:42 Panelists Closings
• 40:11 Monthly Donors
• 40:28 Closings

Episode edited by Angel Barrera. You can find her on Twitter here if you need a show edited!