ABA Continues to Push for Loan Relief
December 27, 2009
According to the National Law Journal, ABA President Carolyn Lamm said last week that the association is still trying to build support for student-loan relief for recent graduates. The National Law Journal reported in November that the ABA was lobbying the Obama administration on the issue, highlighting the plight of graduates who went into debt but have not found jobs because of the recession.
“What we can’t have is this situation of a generation of young lawyers squashed by debt,” said Lamm, a Washington, D.C., partner at White & Case.
Lamm said that she or other ABA officials have met with aides on Capitol Hill, at the U.S. Department of Education and in the White House to press their case, so far without success. “Wherever we have an opportunity, we share our views,” she said. “They’re very interested in education. They’re very interested in finding a way to help. I can’t say that we’ve found a solution yet.”
This doesn't affect just young lawyers. Even people just
Joe | January 3, 2010 | 2:31 AMThis doesn’t affect just young lawyers. Even people just completing their undergraduate work are graduating with mountains of debt that they have very little opportunity to repay. And we still keep telling people that they MUST go to college. But how can they do that if they cannot pay for it?