U.S. President Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said.
Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt.
The president’s announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said.
Unfortunately, Congress is the blocker. Biden can’t unilaterally declare a national minimum wage.
The Biden administration can’t do much but they did institute a $15 min wage for federal contractors, one of very few tools available.
Considering how far spread the federal contractors are, I’m guessing this might give some wage competition to rural areas with the limited employers who aren’t govt/fed contracting.
You can tell these complaints are straight outta Beijing and Moscow because they literally cannot comprehend that the state leader can’t just do shit unilaterally
I just wonder why Lemmy of all places.
Large number of instances run by tankies. Lemmy basically became “left”-wing voat in a few of the less entry level instances.
I always try to forget tankies exist. Makes sense, sadly.