Quick recap
President Barack Obama teamed up with social networking site Tumblr to reach out to the indebted youth of America.
Obama is promoting the expansion of a program meant to lower the monthly payments of school tuition loans. A method of achieving this would be to cap repayments to 10% of earned income.
While at the same time, Obama hopes to give a shout out to more comprehensive bill championed by senate democrats.
The President is not shy about appearing on mediums that skew to a younger audience, and just under half of Tumblr users are in the 18-35 demo. To promote the Affordable Health Care Act, Obama went on the internet show “Between Two Ferns,” with Comedian Zack Galifianakis.
Tumblr is primarily a visual blogging site (if judged by it’s typical usage), but it could also handle text and the social network solicited for questions to the commander-in-chief before hand. On Tuesday it was moderated by Tumblrs’ 27-year-old founder, a college drop out. (Which Obama called him the “Lebron” of his peers, an outlier and not a typical result of missing a college education.)
At times the Q and A seemed like a parent instilling some reality into their college-bound teens. For instance, Obama weighed the risk and rewards of following ones passion and being prepared in a field with ample job offerings. The level minded solution was to probably work at a job one may not like, to be able to obtain the stability to chase one’s passions.
Topics floated from college debt, education strategy, to the recent school-shooting in Oregon.
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