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Je's avatar

Yes, Bidenomics is working and Biden is keeping his promises and little people will get some economic breathing room. And Yes, Republicans are baring their teeth and biting everyone who crosses them. But what I wanna know is: are they (R's) really becoming progressively toothless? Can we start to breath a bit? What about the threat of the Freedom Caucus to shut the government down? Can Democrats prevail and keep the country moving steadily in the right direction until the 2024 election?

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Yes! to the Teamsters. Yes! to defendants who lied under oath and are now coming clean. And Yes! to finding new ways to alleviate student debt.

But I can help wondering if GOP intransigence about minimizing or erasing student debt is also at least partly a plan to scare people away from higher ed. The less thoughtful and well-educated the citizens are, the more easily they can be manipulated. MA has now made college tuition-free for students over 25, a large slice of the community college population. While I applaud that move, I still wish that there would be some help for the majority of college teachers, those teaching contingently, aka "adjuncts" although they are central to higher ed's missions, not adjacent to it. But that's a topic for another day...

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