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Then nationalize the schools like every other major OEDC nation. This isn’t rocket science. I swear this country sometimes.

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That's one potential solution, I'm not against it a priori, but would be interested in the exact details of it.

But it is not the only potential solution.

But the availability of other actual potential solutions does not make the non-solution of one-time blanket forgiveness that we're discussing here any more appealing to me.

Here’s some research that supports it

https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/rpr_2_6.pdf

Supports what? That paper seems to be narrowly about the economic impact of loan forgiveness, not about nationalizing higher education or about other potential solutions to the causes of student debt.

Pardon, this was deeper linked, but your previous comments describe the overall forgiveness as a bandaid, or generally not helpful. That is not supported by the research.

I do think it is a bandaid and generally not helpful, even if it is not economically damaging. Economic benefit or damage is only one aspect of the question.

This is why this country will always be crabs in a bucket

Why? Because a lot of people don't support counter-productive band-aids and would rather advocate for policies that solve actual problems? That doesn't seem like our issue to me...

The USA has public schools; what do you want?

College, Education, training, viewing people as our greatest assists. This is America, we can do it

Our public colleges are essentially privately funded at this point. The amount of public funding in most states (with a small number of notable exceptions) is very small.

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