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Braxton Brewington on Student Loan Debt, Andy Marra on Trans Youth Rights

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Graduates with debt totals on their capsThis week on CounterSpin: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said recently: “Whenever I go to community meetings, it always comes up. Young and middle-aged and even some elderly. It tortures them.” What was he talking about? Student loan debt. So is what we call "higher" education an individual investment or a public good? The way news media talk about it could be decisive. We'll hear from Braxton Brewington, press secretary and organizer at the group Debt Collective.

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Also on the show: When media say there's a debate about transgender peoples' "right to exist," remind yourself that trans people are going to exist; what's on the table is whether they get to live free from persecution, oppression, exclusion and erasure. Texas state leadership is staking a position on that, but humans everywhere are pushing back, and we talk about that with Andy Marra, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.

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