so mj, we know the biden administration has been debate thg plan for months. why did they decide to do it? this is an announcement that has been in the works for so many months now, and the white house officially confirming earlier today some key details cnn reported earlier this week. let me walk you through those top headlines you just mentioned. as you said, $10,000 in debt forgive ness for people who make less than $125,000 a year, and then if you are a pell grant recipient, that amount goes up to $20,000. there is also going to be a pause that currently exists for loan payments for people. that was set to expire, remember, on august 31st. that is being extended one final time until the end of this year, and that s how people who are going to be paying back loans, that payment is going to be capped at 5% of their monthly income. now, as with a lot of policy announcements that come out of this white house, this doesn t have everything that some democrats and some advocat
democrats really take to the campaign trail as they try to talk about their accomplishments ahead of the midterm elections. al we will look for that announcement. democrats are newly optimistic today after last night s election results. cnn projects that democrat pat ray ya ryan is the winner of a house seat in a new york swing district. he built his campaign as a referendum on roe versus wade. democrats are hoping that message continues to help them and hurt republicans in november. cnn s harry enten is here now. what do you see in the results? let s start off in new york 19, a special house district that joe biden won by one 1.5 points. a democratic overperformance. now, in new york 23, another special house election chryou s the republican here wins by about 6.5. keep in mind that donald trump won this district by 11.2
or eight months ago. what we mean by that, patriae y pat ryan only won two counties in the district. they were two of the three most populous counties. they were two of the three best educated counties and the third county that kind of fit in there, which was the republicans home base, pat ryan to a draw. what that says is that even though democrats are facing problems among some of the voting groups that are the most exposed to inflation including non-college whites, maybe latino men, to some extent young voters, they are maintaining the enormous advantages that they had in 2018 to 2020 among white collar voters and people in more dense metropolitan areas. there isn t like a super suburb here, but to the extenst there are more population centers, ryan really ran up the score in them, and that suggests the trump era republican party not only on abortion, alisyn, but also on guns and democracy and the threat to democracy that
line. educators in ohio s largest school system say they want improvements to what they describe as dilapidated buildings. they want air-conditioning and heating for all the schools. they want their over packed schedules addressed. this is the first day of school for that district, but students have instead logged on to virtual classes taught by substitutes. megan buscemi is a parent of a second grader within the columbus school city district there. thank you so much for being with us. do you support the teachers decision to strike? i do both as a former educator and a parent who understands that these teachers are fighting not only for themselves but for our children. we very firmly support the cta and the teachers who are striking. we will not cross a picket line ever. when you say you will not cross the picket line, does that mean you re going to keep your second grade daughter home from classes or not logging onto the virtual classes i should say?
cooling is iffy, but we have students who go to schools where the roof does not keep out the rain. there is mold growing up the walls. there is a lack of hot running water. there are cockroaches as big as my thumb and rats running across the floors. it s horrifying. it s disgusting. and i trained as an educator. i had seven years in the public school classroom, not in this district, but i taught in a condemned building. i personally know what it feels like to teach in a classroom that reaches 108 degrees in the summer and fegets down to 55 degrees in the winter. it is extremely challenging not only for the teachers but for the children. they can t concentrate. when you have kids bringing blankets to class to wrap up in, it s just not conducive to having a positive learning experience. certainly not. no, and when the superintendent says the money is there and she doesn t have time to spend it, well, i think