Debt Forgiveness

President Joe Biden's recent announcement to forgive student loans for Americans left many borrowers with questions. While we still don't know all the answers, we ask experts to help us understand how to best take advantage of the relief.

At a price tag of just over $200,000, more than $35 million in medical debt was forgiven and erased for 23,896 Arkansans in all 75 counties. Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation and Abby Hughes Holsclaw of Arkansas Asset Funders Network discuss the impact of this debt forgiveness and the future policy plans to prevent this from happening in the future.

All Saints' Episcopal Church in Bentonville has launched an initiative to raise funds to erase medical debt for vulnerable Arkansans. The church has…