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“This was the moment that people in Washington started to take student debt seriously,” Pierce said. Chopra’s agenda-setting work in those days, he said, helped shape monumental changes in the student-loan market over the next decade–including the Biden administration’s announcement this summer on student debt cancellation. 

“The most important thing is that people apply for debt relief. Nothing has changed,” Mike Pierce, executive director and co-founder of the Student Borrower Protection Center, told ABC News. “The fact that the application is open, it is simple, it works, it is easy, and the administration is putting the building blocks in place to be able to press the button and cancel everybody’s debts as soon as they’re able to do so?…

“Today, a federal judge confirmed what lawyers in and out of government have long known: Joe Biden can cancel student debt broadly and immediately,” Mike Pierce, executive director of advocacy group Student Borrower Protection Center, said in a statement. “As right-wing politicians and corrupt corporations fight against this historic effort to deliver life-changing debt relief to tens of millions of families, borrowers have their clearest sign yet that the law is on their…