You know if Cuomo had somehow survived his scandal, this could be legalized tomorrow if someone just came out with another credible accusation.

Unfortunately this should surprise noone. Hailing people as 'heroes' is the oldest trick in the book to make someone do something truly awful for their own self interest.

Look at these heroes going off to die at war! Or in this case, the heroes that have to go treat a deadly pandemic with a bandana for a mask.

I mean I know you're saying that sarcastically, but even the fucking bare minimum of restrictions we had in say, late 2020 through fall 2021 seemed to work surprisingly well.

Nobody's asking for anything resembling a lockdown. Could ya'll just stop being so fucking gross for a bit and stay home if you're sick, maybe wear a mask in the subway?

No, fuck off, it isn't 'just allergies' in December.

Maybe they are. But the MTA has a massive budget and massive waste. Even if things could be even worse that's not a good explanation.

I mean, yeah. We have seen them raise fares and nothing improve or even get worse so, until shown otherwise that's a fair reaction.

Can anyone actually explain to me wtf is so complicated about signal work?

What we don't have wired and wireless communication figured out in 2022? I never hear about this being a major problem in any other major subway system.

The bar requires lawyers to work for free? What?

Lol, you may be a lawyer, but economics still escapes you.

Nobody's in a position to be picky about taking those that want the job vs those that want the deal, when even both groups combined aren't anywhere near meeting the demand.

This was several years ago. Rules changed recently to be a lot more lenient because only 7000 people had managed to get relief previously.

https://www.nlc.org/article/2022/08/08/the-limited-pslf-waiver-a-game-changer-for-city-employees/#:~:text=Crucially%2C%20there%20is%20no%20income,fully%20forgiven%2C%20tax%2Dfree.

Maybe she was incorrectly kicked off and could have fought it.

But by that point she was so sick of paying federal loans at the insane rate when she could refinance to private at 2% interest that she just did that.

Yeah, under the new guidelines and knowing student loan forgiveness was coming, maybe thing should have been different. In 2019, she just got slapped in the face that after working toward this for almost a decade and accruing interest at the high Federal rate she wasn't going to get it and just gave up.

Right..

> it’s supposed to be for people who want to work these jobs, but it wouldn’t be financially possible to without it

Except a lot of the time you end up fucked and not getting it anyway, so you risk putting yourself in a financially impossible situation 8 years into it. Does that sound like a great offer?

Meh, she'll get by. But being in your late 30s and still paying student loans sucks.

You keep saying PSLF as if it's some great solution, but I'm giving you an example of why professionals don't want to go through the shit required to get PSLF.

You just don't want to hear it. Fine, but then suck it the fuck up when you wonder why you can't get a doctors appointment or anyone to represent you in court.

LOL, who do you think is losing here? The professionals will be fine. You'll be left crying you can't get their service for free and facing the consequences.

What makes you think it's OK to basically scam the few intelligent, hard working people that are giving up more money to work for underserved communities like you want, by fucking them over? And could you maybe imagine some longer term consequences of PSLF getting this reputation, maybe on future professionals deciding whether to pursue it?

You're entitled to your opinion, but clearly the lawyers themselves, presumably a decently intelligent bunch, are deciding it is not a good deal.

Or do you think they just haven't heard of PSLF?

PSLF is mostly a scam. GF was a doctor that was promised PSLF for working at a hospital with underprivileged patients. 9 years into it they kicked her out for 'making too much money' one year.

This probably comes as a big surprise to a lot of idealistic people on Reddit, but there basic economics of supply and demand still reigns supreme.

Law school and passing the bar is neither cheap nor easy. There's a limited supply of lawyers, and of those, few put in the time and money to become lawyers to live in poverty while donating their skills and time for free or the peanuts legal aid pays.

You can pass all the laws about people's 'right' to the services of a highly skilled professional all you want, but without a realistic plan of how and where you'll get that much supply of the highly skilled labor, it's moot.