Graduate Student Discusses Student Debt in Coronavirus Era

THE NATION -- “It’s a class thing,” Donaldo Prescod, graduate of San Francisco State University’s Cinema Studies master’s program and New York resident, told The Nation.

“Whoever’s rich in that situation is benefiting.” He added that the CARES Act, and even the Democrat-backed HEROES Act that passed in the House, are only Band-Aids — they delay debt rather than shrinking it. When it comes to student loan debt, many borrowers feel that neither major political party actually wants to help.