{"id":10482,"date":"2012-03-13T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=10482"},"modified":"2012-03-13T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:15:12","slug":"the-student-loan-forgiveness-act-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/03\/13\/the-student-loan-forgiveness-act-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a transcription of an email that I received about a proposed bill that makes a lot of sense to me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The main points\u00a0 described in a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hansenclarke.house.gov\/sites\/hansenclarke.house.gov\/files\/documents\/1-pager%20SLFA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">brief summary of the bill<\/a><\/strong> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make student loan repayment both simple and fair<\/li>\n<li>Jumpstart the economy and create jobs<\/li>\n<li>Send a lifeline to student borrowers who have fallen on difficult times<\/li>\n<li>Promote financial responsibility in higher education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For all the details, you can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgivestudentloandebt.com\/content\/student-loan-forgiveness-act-2012-hr-4170-bill-text\" target=\"_blank\">read the actual bill<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There are also answers to some <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hansenclarke.house.gov\/sites\/hansenclarke.house.gov\/files\/documents\/10-10%20Plan%20FAQs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please sign the petition in favor of H.R. 4170 by clicking on the following link: <a href=\"http:\/\/signon.org\/sign\/support-the-student-loan\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/signon.org\/sign\/support-the-student-loan<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This seems like a needed first step to reinstating support for higher education, economic prosperity, and social mobility that has started to wane in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a transcription of an email that I received about a proposed bill that makes a lot of sense to me. The main points\u00a0 described in a brief summary of the bill are: Make student loan repayment both simple and fair Jumpstart the economy and create jobs Send a lifeline to student borrowers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10483,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}