I’ve lived in Ohio for over 20 years and today was the first time going to the @OhioStateFair. This year’s butter sculpture celebrated @NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts. pic.twitter.com/NvKwozvptE
— ?Jazia (@JaziaB) July 28, 2019
To @RepCummings with love from Ghana, where we’re solemnly observing 400 yrs since the first enslaved Africans arrived in America. Thank you Elijah for fearlessly speaking truth. pic.twitter.com/tEz266LI3U
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) July 28, 2019
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It was a (small, but not to me) Pell grant that enabled me to attend an out-of-state college. I understand that Pell grants have changed, not for the better, in the almost 40 years since then, but this still seems like a worthy idea:
Yesterday I announced that, as president, I’ll establish a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities. https://t.co/ldwuC9RiIE
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 28, 2019
Oh and btw Warren is a co-sponsor on Kamala Harris' legislation on pell grants for all the performative progressives out there.https://t.co/T9tdMC6y1f
— swats (@swatnot) July 28, 2019
I know some people are confused about this policy but I’m a black woman who was a pell grant recipient who has a non-profit business. This plan would help me and my community specifically. You might not be the focus of this plan but no need to be angry about it, she’ll have more. https://t.co/2JFM1v96NT
— Maya Contreras (@mayatcontreras) July 28, 2019
Judging from my experience (and that of some of my classmates), grants targeted this way would also be useful to graduates hoping to return to their ‘decaying’ rust-belt post-industrial hometowns, or those ‘forgotten’ ex-coal-mining or Midwestern family-farm hamlets. You know, the sacred haunts of the White Working Class!
• student loan forgiveness
• for pell grant recipients
• who start a small business
• that survives three years
• in a disadvantaged neighborhood***only up to $20k forgiven** pic.twitter.com/6wx5gH5tme
— dunder mifflin, this is diane (@dianelyssa) July 28, 2019
A lot of ignorant replies here. People with massive student loan debt can and do start businesses all the time. (I’m one of them.) Harris’ plan is directed at POC entrepreneurship without running afoul of the constitution which prohibits giving money based on race. Smart. https://t.co/Yy8VPbbUX8
— Candice Aiston (@CandiceAiston) July 28, 2019
Student loan forgiveness for business owners in disadvantaged communities? Bullshit. Student loan forgiveness for podcasters who quit their day jobs after reaching $500/month on Patreon? My exact kind of communism.
— M A S S P O L I T I C S (@OfficialSynanon) July 28, 2019
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