{"id":1602,"date":"2022-03-02T14:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2022-03-02T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:59:03","slug":"kowal-joins-schumer-coalition-partners-in-call-for-student-debt-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/kowal-joins-schumer-coalition-partners-in-call-for-student-debt-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Kowal joins Schumer, coalition partners in call for student debt cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uupinfo.org\/images\/uupdate\/22\/220215.jpg\" alt=\"uupdate 02-15-22\" title=\"Kowal joins Schumer, coalition partners for student debt cancellation\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UUP President Fred Kowal joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and representatives from a coalition of community and labor leaders to call for debt relief for student borrowers at a Feb. 11 press conference in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the event, Schumer said the time is now to cancel up to $50,000 in federal student debt per student, with student debt payments set to resume May 1. That would be a big help to many New Yorkers carrying student loans; 2.4 million people in New York owe nearly $90 billion in student debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor someone who owes tens of thousands of dollars in federal student debt, canceling as much as $50,000 of that could be life-changing,\u201d said Kowal, above right, who posed for a photo with Schumer, left, after the event. \u201cUUP strongly supports the Senate majority leader in his push for the Biden administration to cancel student loan debt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UUP, through its student debt clinics, has helped dozens of UUP members get more than $600,000 in student debt forgiven through the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. UUP student debt clinics are set for March 2, March 16 and March 30. Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aft.knack.com\/member-mobilization-tracker\/#register-for-debt-clinic\/\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also attending the event at the 1199SEIU offices on Seventh Avenue were U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-Yonkers); local elected officials; and leaders from the NAACP; Debt Collective; NYPIRG, Student Debt Crisis; PSC\/CUNY; and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schumer has called for widespread student loan debt forgiveness since 2020. In late January, he, along with 84 Congress members, sent a letter to Biden asking him to cancel student debt and release a 2021 legal memo Biden\u2019s administration prepared about whether the president has the power to cancel the debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UUP President Fred Kowal joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and representatives from a coalition of community and labor leaders to call for debt relief for student borrowers at a &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}