Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Implies We Did Something Wrong. We did not.

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This is a repost of a piece I wrote in 2021. Sadly, it is still completely relevant. Today, President Biden announced that he would continue his targeted debt relief actions, cancelling another $7.8 million in student loans. And yet The New York Times and the major press outlets continue to use the term “forgiveness.”