Key events on the path to student loan forgiveness, from Occupy Wall Street to the 2020 presidential primaries
In September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement began. The protest against income inequality, the wealthy and their financial institutions, led by activists "representing 99 percent of Americans," soon led to the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, which directed its ire at the country's skyrocketing tuition costs and debt-fueled higher education system. "Given its younger demographic, for many of the movement's participants and supporters, the burden of student loan repayment was probably their mo
