美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)周四宣布，他的政府将免除约78，000名公共服务工作者58亿美元的联邦学生贷款债务。
拜登在一份声明中说，这些借款人包括教师、护士、消防员和其他参加公共服务贷款豁免(PSLF)计划的人，他们“将自己的职业生涯奉献给了服务社区”。
根据白宫的数据，债务取消将使他的政府对近400万美国人的债务减免总额达到约1440亿美元。
拜登说:“从我执政的第一天起，我就承诺修复破裂的学生贷款计划，并确保高等教育是通往中产阶级的门票，而不是机会的障碍。
他补充说，“我不会放弃使用我所掌握的每一种工具来为更多的美国人提供学生债务减免，并建立一个自中而外和自下而上的经济。”
拜登说，周四宣布的学生贷款豁免使政府取消公共服务人员贷款的总数达到87万。他补充说，在我执政之前，只有大约7000名此类借款人“获得过宽恕”。
他说:“通过我们各种各样的学生债务减免行动，近400万美国人在我的执政期间取消了学生债务。
官员们表示，拜登迄今为止发放的学生贷款取消总额超过1430亿美元。
公共服务贷款豁免计划允许从事消防、护理和教学等工作的人在连续支付10年后获得债务豁免。
官员们表示，拜登政府已经对该计划进行了修复，该计划由于实施不力和计划中的错误而未能向许多人提供学生贷款救济。
拜登政府还将向38万名在两年内通过PSLF获得贷款豁免的借款人发送电子邮件通知，鼓励他们坚持还款。
据官员称，14万借款人有望在不到一年的时间里获得同样的豁免。
有24万借款人将在未来两年内获得贷款豁免，他们将收到一封类似的电子邮件，注明他们的时间表。
拜登早些时候曾试图全面取消联邦学生贷款——总计约4300万人4000亿美元。但是美国最高法院拒绝了因为超出了他的职权范围。
Biden administration forgives student loans for 78,000 more public service workers
President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that about 78,000 public service workers will have $5.8 billion in federal student loan debt forgiven by his administration.
The borrowers, which include teachers, nurses, firefighters and others enrolled in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, have "dedicated their careers to serving their communities," Biden said in a statement.
The debt cancellations will bring his administration's total forgiveness to about $144 billion for nearly 4 million Americans, according to the White House.
"From day one of my Administration, I promised to fix broken student loan programs and make sure higher education is a ticket to the middle class, not a barrier to opportunity," Biden said.
He added, "I won't back down from using every tool at my disposal to deliver student debt relief to more Americans, and build an economy from the middle out and bottom up."
The student loan forgiveness announced on Thursday brings the administration's total cancellations for public service workers to 870,000, Biden said. That's up from only about 7,000 such borrowers "ever receiving forgiveness prior to my Administration," he added.
"And through all of our various student debt relief actions, nearly four million Americans have had their student debt cancelled under my Administration," he said.
Officials said the total amount of student loan cancellation issued by Biden so far is more than $143 billion.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program allows for debt forgiveness for people in jobs like firefighting, nursing and teaching after 10 years of continuous payment.
The Biden administration has made fixes to this program that had failed to deliver student loan relief to many due to poor implementations and errors in the program, officials have said.
The Biden administration will also send email notifications to 380,000 borrowers who are within two years of getting their loans forgiven through PSLF, to encourage them to stick with their payments.
According to officials, 140,000 borrowers are on track to get this same forgiveness in less than a year.
There are 240,000 borrowers on track to have loan forgiveness in the next two years who will receive a similar email noting their timeline.
Biden had earlier attempted a sweeping form of federal student loan cancellation -- totaling an estimated $400 billion for 43 million people. But the U.S. Supreme Courtrejected thatas outside the scope of his authority.
