To: Senator Bob Casey
Senator Casey: Don't Eliminate Loan Forgiveness!
We strongly urge you to oppose the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in its current form in the 2015 budget. Capping the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program to $57,500 is unacceptable because it will harm the most marginalized members of our society and those who are working with them.
Why is this important?
I am a law student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Many of my colleagues came to law school in order to make a difference in the lives of the most marginalized members of our society. Upon graduation, my colleagues will be working to address racial justice, environmental justice, intimate partner violence, juvenile justice, education reform, LGBT equality, healthcare, and many other important issues.
Many of us have taken on significant debt in order to pursue our dreams, and public interest law students will take jobs that will not pay nearly enough to make their debt manageable.
Capping Public Service Loan Forgiveness at $57,500 will spell the end of public interest lawyering. Only the wealthiest members of our country will be able to afford to go to law school and then choose to work in a low-paying public service job while managing, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt accrued over undergraduate and graduate education.
Senator Casey, we urge you to use your position on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to oppose the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in its current form in the 2015 budget.
Many of us have taken on significant debt in order to pursue our dreams, and public interest law students will take jobs that will not pay nearly enough to make their debt manageable.
Capping Public Service Loan Forgiveness at $57,500 will spell the end of public interest lawyering. Only the wealthiest members of our country will be able to afford to go to law school and then choose to work in a low-paying public service job while managing, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt accrued over undergraduate and graduate education.
Senator Casey, we urge you to use your position on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to oppose the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program in its current form in the 2015 budget.