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and can haunt many students throughout their lives. reporter: vanessa russell likes president biden s new plan where borrowers can have $20,000 of their student loans wiped out if they make less than $25,000 a year or married couples or heads of households making less than 250,000. $20,000 of student loans can be forgiven for those who received pell grants, given to students from low and middle income families. the president is also planning to extend the pause on all student loan payments. a moratorium put in place during the pandemic until january. i m really excited. it s going to cut my loan almost in half. reporter: others are critical. other people have other types of debt and those aren t being forgiven. it s tough to swallow. i don t think it s enough to come out and say they re forgiving 10 to $20,000. it s ridiculous. reporter: what if you took out a loan but couldn t finish college? this broad base loan forgiveness will cover people who took out debt but didn t
can t keep up. i heard stories of people paying on this debt over and over and over again and they can t catch up because the interest rates. people owe more a lot of people owe more because of the interest rates than when they than what they borrowed. the structure in this country needs to be changened and can be changed. let me jump in because you talked about the republican s response to this. there are plenty of folks out there, not just republicans who said listen, i paid off my student loans. why should these guys get a freeby and perhaps cynically just before midterms. mitch mcconnell called this a slap in the face for every family sacrificed to save for college, every graduate who paid their debt and also the argument that you sort of talked about, people who actually didn t go to college there. they re now paying their taxes for student loans they never got. so what do you say to that? taxes are not going up over this. so it is a straight up lie for the republicans to
the average white student between 8 and $12,000, that $10,000 hardly meets the need. so it is structural in nature. and it needs to be changed. so, this is a small step but it is a step nonetheless. how far will this new program help, do you think? it helps somewhat. it s means tested. that means that you re leaving a whole bunch of people out. and it should be canceling student debt for all so that nobody is left out so that no one feels as though they did not get the relief that they deserve. it is hurting working clas and working poor. we know many students who start college don t even finish. so when you have people like the gop using the working class, the truck driver, the farmer, assuming that a truck driver and a farmer did not go to college, a lot of those people go to college, a lot of their children go to college. why, because they re trying to obtain the american dream. and that is being doused because this debt is so you just
reporter: but not every borrower with take advantage of this. it also won t benefit people who have private student loans. this is only offered to people who have federal loans. reporter: that s the bulk of borrowers, experts say. but critics are calling this plan unfair. a slap in the face to people who saved for college, who worked doggedly to pay off their loans or who went into the military or another field because they couldn t take on student debt. some argue that american taxpayers will be footing the bill for a benefit for people who don t need it. not everybody that has student debt is rich, disproportionately student debt is held by people that have advanced degrees and pretty good income. they can bear it a lot more than everyday americans that are seeing the cost of their gasoline and clothing go up. reporter: and there s still the issue of skyrocketing tuitions. the total cost of going to college now averages over $35,000 a year, closer to $55,000 a year at a pri