Power Station

None of us, from the Supreme Court to our elected representatives to corporate CEOs, should underestimate this nation’s young people. On the same day that the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student debt cancellation plan, blocking relief for 40 million Americans, the 18 to 34 year old’s that animate Young Invincibles, a nonprofit founded during the nation’s tumultuous debate over the Affordable Care Act, absorbed the blow and set about putting a powerful Plan B into action. On this episode of Power Station, Young Invincibles’ executive director Kristin McGuire shares her own experience with student debt to illustrate how young borrowers, particularly Black and Brown youth, are harmed, often generationally, by the high cost of student loans. And while she is frustrated by the SCOTUS decision, she draws on her conviction, gained from years of community organizing, that the movement to end the stranglehold of student debt will prevail. Young Invincibles invests in the capacity and commitment of youn