“Let Them Eat Student Debt” (w/ Astra Taylor & Marshall Steinbaum)
On this week’s Lever Time: David breaks down Biden’s student debt relief plan and discusses the rise of ‘Dark Brandon.’
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Show Notes
On this week’s episode of Lever Time: David Sirota is joined by The Lever’s Andrew Perez and Matthew Cunningham-Cook to discuss Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan and dissect the internet’s obsession with ‘Dark Brandon' (3:15). Then, David sits down with author, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Debt Collective, Astra Taylor, and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Marshall Steinbaum, for an in-depth analysis of Biden’s student debt relief plan (37:55).
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A rough transcript of this episode is available here.