Politics
Candace Owens announces new late-night talk show
Author, political commentator and ‘BLEXIT” movement founder Candace Owens announced that she will be launching a new talk show called “Candace.”
“Candace” will be debuting March 19 on The Daily Wire in front of a studio audience in Nashville, TN.
Owens vows that her talk show will be a “space for conservatives to feel heard.”
“I guess the best way to describe it would be like a late-night talk show,” Owens told ITK. “It’s going to be funny. It’s going to be lighthearted. I think the most important adjective is it’s going to be hopeful.”
Owens said she does not want her audience to be limited to a targeted group.
“I think I’m definitely trying to broaden [the audience] beyond that. And I think I’ve always done that,” she said.
“I would say that my audience is any person that doesn’t feel heard or feels misunderstood,” Owens adds. “That would be my audience. And I think that that’s a lot of people right now.”
The launch of Owen’s talk show comes soon after teased a presidential run.
“I love America,” the “Blackout” author tweeted last month. “Thinking about running for President.”
Owens, who turns 32 next month, would meet the age requirement to run for president in 2024.
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Economy
White House announced $6 billion student loan forgiveness for 78,000 public service workers
The White House recently announced a $6 billion loan forgiveness program. Nurses, teachers and firefighters are among the 78,000 public service workers who will qualify. Fox Business reports:
Due to fixes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, workers that never received forgiveness are now having their debts partially forgiven or canceled. Only about 7,000 public service borrowers received forgiveness prior to the Biden Administration, now that total hovers closer to 870,000, the announcement said.
“Today’s announcement comes on top of the significant progress we’ve achieved for students and student loan borrowers in the past few years,” the announcement stated. “This includes: providing the largest increases in Pell Grants in over a decade to help families who earn less than roughly $60,000 a year; fixing Income-Driven Repayment plans so borrowers in repayment for years get the relief they earned; and creating the most generous Income-Driven Repayment plan in history – the SAVE plan.”
However, there is concern over fairness that older generations are still paying off student loans and could risk losing Social Security. A group of representatives wrote a letter to Congress, hoping to address the issue of seniors still paying down student loans. Currently, under the Treasury Offset Program (TOP), the government can collect funds, such as tax refunds and Social Security, to pay outstanding student loan balances, reports Fox Business.
“Under the TOP, the federal government can withhold up to 15 percent of monthly Social Security or disability benefits for defaulted student loans,” the lawmakers explained in their letter.
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