🎧 LEVER TIME: “Let Them Eat Student Debt” (feat. Astra Taylor & Marshall Steinbaum)

In the new episode of our weekly podcast Lever Time, David Sirota is joined by The Lever’s Andrew Perez and Matthew Cunningham-Cook to discuss Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan and dissect the internet’s obsession with ‘Dark Brandon’ (3:15).

In addition, David sits down with author, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Debt Collective, Astra Taylor, and Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Marshall Steinbaum, for an in-depth analysis of Biden’s student debt relief plan (37:55).

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BONUS: Lever Time Premium, our extended weekly podcast for supporting subscribers, features David’s recent appearance on the Bad Faith podcast, in which he and Briahna Joy Gray break down the strengths and weaknesses of the Inflation Reduction Act (1:14:40).

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