Back on hook for loans, Americans decry 'unjust' student debt

Washington (AFP) - If the US Supreme Court had not overruled President Joe Biden's program to cancel billions of dollars in student debt, Satra D. Taylor, who borrowed $40,000 to complete her studies, could have seen that amount reduced by half. Now the 27-year-old -- who used the loan to study at the University of Michigan, supplementing a scholarship and other financial aid -- is back on the hook for the whole sum. "We created this unjust, inequitable, expensive, higher education system and so we need to redress it," she told AFP, standing before the high court. Biden's forgiveness program w...