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In reply to the discussion: Frustrated that Biden did not answer the 2nd to last question (on the $10K student loan write-off) [View all]Celerity
(50,925 posts)national (UK/Swedish father and UK/Barbados mum) parents. I am the only US citizen within my nuclear family, but have more distant relatives who are US citizens (most from my mother's side). I grew up mostly in London (Hong Kong for several years as well, when I was young), live in Stockholm now, and went to an American uni (also in LA) for one of my degrees. I have many American friends and acquaintances, some are expats, some still live in the US. I am very active with Democratic Party politics for both groups. Furthermore I participate on other (American-centric) boards apart from DU, most all of them with a far younger average age demographic. My social set is not just trans-Atlantic, it is fairly global.
University tuition is free in Sweden (PhD programmes pay students a sliding scale salary depend on the area of study) for all EU/EEA and Switzerland citizens, and there are international scholarships as well. It used to (up until the 2011/12 school year) be free for all citizens of any country, the US included. People here do take out student aid loans (via CSN ie Centrala studiestödsnämnden) and many have debt loads from it, but at much smaller levels than the US students.
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