{"id":23948,"date":"2019-10-09T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=23948"},"modified":"2019-10-09T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T22:04:00","slug":"bidens-education-plan-student-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/bidens-education-plan-student-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s education plan focuses on student debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>This Thursday, Senator Joe Biden released his <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/beyondhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>educational plan<\/b><\/a><b> for the upcoming presidential campaign.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The policy outlines several major points and places a significant focus on relieving student debt nationally.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While other presidential candidates have included impressive student debt cancellation plans, Mr. Biden has modestly proposed a reduction by around fifty percent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education plan<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>In his initial campaign proposals, Mr. Biden was rather scarce in addressing the student debt crisis.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, after his democratic opponents released their education plans, it became clear that several of the presidential candidates will be focusing on this problem.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This most likely led Mr. Biden to revise his take on the educational plan and include more measures regarding the rising levels of bad student credit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student loan crisis<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Mr. Biden has revised his education plan accordingly, the future of student indebtedness in the United States remains unclear.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country is currently going through a severe student loan crisis, which has been gradually building up over the past few decades. <\/span><b>As universities are continuously raising tuition fees, and the cost of living in the country increases, students often find themselves unable to return their student loans.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/college-students-affected-soaring-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the cost of a higher education course at the moment is between two and three times higher than what it used to be for the previous generation of students.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, this has made it harder for students and graduates to pay back their loans on time, which often causes significant disruptions to their financial stability.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Because the majority of student loan holders are having difficulties with their expenses, the government has to think of ways to remedy this crisis.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hopefully, with the presidential election in 2020, a change will come to the educational sector, and especially to the way universities structure their tuition fees. At the moment, the United States is facing a potentially disastrous level of bad student loans. Maybe a better education plan is in the offing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, Senator Joe Biden released his educational plan for the upcoming presidential campaign. The policy outlines several major points and places a significant focus on relieving student debt nationally. While other presidential candidates have included impressive student debt cancellation plans, Mr. Biden has modestly proposed a reduction by around fifty percent.\u00a0 Education plan In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":23949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}