Meet a teacher with $303,000 in student debt who says Biden's $10,000 loan-forgiveness plan 'is not even a drop in the bucket'
had hoped he would go bigger and are disappointed he appears to be settling on an amount that would hardly make a dent in the US's $1.7 trillion student-debt load.
"I'm totally screwed," Cheryl said."And now I'm trying to put a kid through college and he got a good scholarship, but it doesn't pay for everything. I have no idea how I'm going to do it, I guess I'll have to get another job." "I have $200 to get gas, and groceries and everything else, and there's not much left after that," Cheryl said."It keeps you in this nasty little loop that you can't get out of because I can't afford to pay it down and the interest keeps coming."
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