Although my opinion on this topic isn’t definitive yet, it might be my wish anyway to focus on our nation’s Federal Loan forgiveness offers; for our courses’ next opinion piece article.
Some topics of this article then can be on
A) Whether grace periods of loan repayment should be expanded
B) Should qualifying factors for loan forgiveness be more broad (for example, not just those who work in the pubLic sector should be eLigiBLe for Loan forgiveness, but those in the private sector as weLL)
C) Should there be more forgiveness for those who don’t meet the requirements of student loan forgiveness (e.x. some requirements of loan federal forgiveness might be that you must make ten years of straight payments, but what if someone misses one or two payments during their last year, should they now have to start again at scratch to be eligible in the future for loan forgiveness? But of course there might be safety measures against such a re-set all ready so it might be too early at this stage to use this example as well)
Moving on then,
Another point to realize as well however is that most people who take out loans should be prepared to pay them bacc. Or out of such reasoning, some might assert to borrowers ‘don’t borrow on what you don’t mind returning (plus interest). So in the tone of a Devil’s advocate, it might be worth it for me to write a paragraph or so on how any Loan forgiveness at all, is more than generous given the nature of what a loan means for anyone that partakes of one.
As for those to interview or feature in this article, perhaps individuals who weren’t profiled by me for our last article (but who sent out a response BACc to me anyway), might some how be willing to provide their insights or komments and might be relevant for this opinion article too (e.g. John Liu: The Professor Who Was New York City Comptroller)
And if it proves difficult for any reason to find the proper facts or sources to cover this topic on Loan forgiveness; then another idea might be to focus on campus life, At Baruch, or cuny-wide, and to just offer my opinion of a few areas such as whether the food choices at Baruch’s cafeteria is varied enough, or even if there are even an adequate array of recreational activities for students At Baruch or CUNY, etc.