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estimates are in now that this wipes out 20 million people's debt, and impacts another 27 million people, which is crazy. that's a ton of people who will be out from underneath this
That should bolster the economy as well, right?
almost certainly yeah. this frees a lot of money that otherwise goes to monthly payments to go toward literally anything else.