A Look At Student Loan Forgiveness. It Requires A Deeper Dive.

Mark Spearman
7 min readApr 17, 2024
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Who Among Us Is A Student Loan Specialist?

The topic of student loan forgiveness sends most of us into an immediate judgement. If we owe, it’s a great idea. If we don’t owe, it’s a terrible idea that steals from responsible people. We need to take a deeper look at this or the politicians are going keep making the education system worse.

I took a deeper dive and these are the results of some research and a compilation of some ideas that research gave me.

Learn The History Of Student Loans

Making an informed decision on where we stand requires a short history lesson about student loans. Please, do more research on this. This article is just a few things I discovered from sites like this on the history of student loans. It takes a few searches on different sites. This is a politically charged issue, so there are biased versions of the history.

WW2 Vets Proved That Student Financial Aid Worked

The first part of student financial aid history you should understand is that World War 2 vets came home and many utilized their Veteran’s benefits to go to school for free or at reduced cost. The result was more educated population and a…

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Mark Spearman

I hail from Central Ohio. I have a diverse background and enjoy writing to the fullest. See more at http://markspearman.com