Elizabeth Warren

Those days are over.

We will not settle for less.

I proposed an essential worker bill of rights outlining a full suite of rights and protections and benefits that I believe all essential workers deserve.

Essential workers are just that: essential. They are the people who are on the front lines.

It is time to deliver for workers, and that means doing everything we can, including using budget reconciliation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

These essential workers are disproportionately Black and brown.

The number one thing he can do to help close the black/white wealth gap, is cancel $50,000 worth of student loan debt. It would be transformative for families and transformative for this nation.

It would be transformative for families and transformative for this nation.

We cancel $50,000 worth of student loan debt, and what that will mean is that 85 percent of those who are struggling with student loan debt right now, about 40 million people, will see their student loan debt completely wiped out.

Wealth tax, Social Security, the money that we need in order to have child care, Medicare, it’s all right there in the Finance Committee. You know, we talk a lot in this country, we talk a lot on your program, about inequality in our…

Well, keep in mind, Joe Biden ran on the most progressive agenda ever. And now, he is meeting the moment. And we need to continue to hold everyone accountable to the promises that have been made. It’s a good time.

The number one thing that President Biden can do right now for this economy, cancel $50,000 worth of student loan debt.

Marty will be a Secretary of Labor who actually supports labor.

Will you commit to developing a plan to reform FSA so that it works for student borrowers instead of for big corporations?

Let me ask you, will you commit to doing everything you can to use those tools to provide borrowers with immediate relief?

One route that I am going to continue to urge you to take is administrative cancellation of student loan debt.

Student loan debt is one of the biggest contributors to rising debt loads by seniors.

I am reminded by this how difficult it is right now for our students and for our teachers, who are having to deal with technical glitches that interrupt their education every day, and why this package is so important to get the resources…

About 43 million people--that is one in five adults in America--have Federal student loan debt.

This debt adds up to more than about a trillion and a half dollars.

But, today, students face a very different situation, so I want to talk with you today about student debt.

All of a sudden, the billionaires and some hedge funds are yelling because they`re not the ones, the only ones, who make money when the manipulation works, but remember the other half of this. There are going to be a lot of people who are…

We need to take action before the pandemic widens the home ownership gap even more.

We live in an America today where a typical White family has eight times the wealth of a typical Black family and five times the wealth of a typical Latinx family gaps that have not budged in decades.

Canceling $50,000 in Federal student loan debt is the single biggest thing the Administration could do on its own to narrow the racial wealth gap.