$10,000 in Student Debt Canceled

I've been saying for years that every bill requiring any type of funding at all must include the source of that funding.

 

And the painter's union in NY just announced it will give out 500 applications for apprentices to paint bridges. $44 an hour to start, about $82,000 a year.

 

The source of the funding... the next generation.

 

And every tax cut must make matching spending reductions.

 

Very dangerous work. You're often a hundred feet plus off the ground, the bridges are in terrible shape from the perspective of hanging underneath them and the pigeon, bat and rat shit is out of control.

 

Nuthin' to it...

 

82k in New York isn't what it used to be.

 

My two kids college cost me $400k. No loans. I did for them what my parents did for me.

 

Congrats for the two doctors in the family.

 

Not doctors. But thank you.

 

women’s studies degrees from Colgate can also run $400k but I was being optimistic.

 

It was for two separate degrees.

 

That's without overtime.

 

Woman's studies??.....I went to get a lick.her license



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Your rhetoric is patriarchal violence. I learned that for $400k.

 

Average rent in NYC is up to $3500 a month at this point.

The old formula of .25* income would make that $168k a year to live in NYC, more in Manhattan.

In the mid-60's my folks and grandfather got together to rent a huge apartment in Washington Heights for $400 a month. They considered it a necessity with 4 kids and both my grandfather and mother doing business in the house, one a travel executive and the other giving music lessons.

That same apartment would rent for more than $5k today if it was on the rental market.