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☆ Meet the typical student-loan borrower: a millennial woman with a $35,000 balance who wants debt relief
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Millennials hold the most student debt, with an average balance of about $35,000 per person. Most student-loan borrowers want Biden to deliver broad debt relief. Take Helena, a 58-year-old borrower with $145,000 in student debt who previously had to sell items on eBay to afford her payments. That amount varies by generation: the average Gen Z borrower holds $24,472 in student debt, the average millennial holds $42,637 in student debt, and the average Gen Xer holds $48,733 in student debt, according to TransUnion. A Morning Consult and Politico poll in June 2022, right before Biden's first debt relief plan was announced, found that of 2,000 registered voters, 65% of respondents aged 18 to 34 supported $10,000 in debt relief, with 61% of respondents aged 35 to 44 feeling the same.

Persons: Millennials, Biden, —, Helena, Joe Biden's, Theresa Teders, that's, it's, Xer, Zers, millennials, Gen Xers —, Biden's Organizations: Service, eBay, Education Department, Higher, American Association of University Women, Federal Student Aid, Politico

☆ The ‘Barbie’ Movie Explains Why We Still Care About Barbie - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Andi Zeisler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

She was more distant in my adulthood, as Barbie had become a subject of feminist concern. I followed many authors, artists, musicians and assorted culture jammers who were publicly working out their own Barbie issues in fascinating ways. However we feel about Barbie at a given moment says a lot more about us than it does about Barbie. Mattel’s litigious responses to things like the 1998 intersectional feminist body-image essay collection “Adios, Barbie” and Aqua’s gratingly ubiquitous earworm “Barbie Girl” didn’t help its P.R. It’s a fitting approach, since the most interesting thing about Barbie has always been our reactions to her.

Persons: Barbie, jammers, she’s, Rather, Ophelia, Anita Hill, Barbie —, Mattel’s, Barbie ”, “, Greta Gerwig Organizations: Committee, Latina, Miss America, Playboy, Mattel, American Association of University Women Locations: Hollywood

☆ I'm the CEO of Ancestry. Here are 6 things that are hard to admit as a working mother.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Deb Liu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Liu writes that being a full-time working mother is hard and no one can do it without support. that being a full-time working mother is hard and no one can do it without support. The truth is, being a full-time working mother outside the home, especially to young children, is hard. Realistically, most mothers work out of necessity, and they are the norm, even as they are judged negatively for making that choice. Nevertheless, the motherhood penalty is real, and it is felt by so many working mothers who silently struggle to keep all the plates spinning, hoping that none of them tip over.

Persons: Deb Liu, Liu, —, Jonathan, Bethany, Danielle, I've, it's, fatherswere, couldn't, David, we'd, we're, I'd Organizations: Service, American Association of University Women, Census, American, Sociology, American Sociological Association Locations: America

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