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SCOTUS’ Student Loans Ruling Could Really Hurt Women’s Mental Health (msn.com)
Well…what a surprise…NOT!!! And here we are, yet again, as women.
Reading the above article makes me feel sad, angry and frustrated.
All at once. I’m not saying that people (including men) in general, will not experience the full onslaught and impact of this, BUT women have a unique position because as the article states in no uncertain way:
“While she was in the middle of planning her Disney-inspired pregnancy announcement, Dannette received an unexpected call from the human resources department at her work. She was being laid off at 15 weeks pregnant. It wasn’t exactly how Dannette, a 32-year-old, first-generation college graduate from New York, envisioned her babymoon. The panic quickly struck. She had no idea how she would restart her college loan payments this fall — debts she’d been paying for 11 years until the payments were paused in 2020 during the pandemic — without a job.
“Dannette is not alone in this debt-related stress. More than 60 percent of all student loan borrowers and 65 percent of women borrowers say their debt has negatively affected their mental health, according to a 2022 CNBC/Momentive Poll survey. Another survey found that one in eight single women owing more than twice…
