The fight to protect student debt relief

Members who wish to apply for Public Service Loan Forgiveness should act now. That was AFT President Randi Weingarten’s message for participants during an AFT telephone town hall for members on Jan. 7. The AFT has been fighting for decades to make sure that college is affordable and accessible to all, said Weingarten. First introduced as a bipartisan policy in 2007, Public Service Loan Forgiveness was designed to erase student debt for public service workers after they have made 10 years of on-time payments. Thanks to efforts during the Biden-Harris administration, $78 billion in loans has already been forgiven for more than 1 million public service workers. However, with the looming transition of power in Washington, D.C., the…