A Different Take on Student Loan Forgiveness
Just some thoughts after seeing so many opinions on the student debt relief. First, (disclosure) I will benefit from this...why? Why didn't I work "hard enough" to pay off my student loans. Being a person who got pregnant in college and choose to carry and raise my daughter and then marry her father keeping our family together I needed financial assitance with the idea that once I graduated I could work as a teacher. My husband working hard at an entry level IT job to provide for us. Both his mother and my mother passed away over the next few years and my mother had told me she really wanted me to finish my education and I honored that. I started college in 1996 and it would take me until 2010 to actually finish that degree. During this time we were led to adopt and instead of the 1 newborn we had planned on we ended up adopting 5 children because of our refusal to break up sibling groups, and our willingness to adopt older chldren. I put my deg...