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For most journalists, your connection to any one story is likely fleeting. You get a tip or a hunch, start to research and report, make sure you have it all right through editing and fact-checking, and when that story is just about perfect (and your deadline is up), you send it out into the world and say goodbye.<\/p>\n
WATCH:<\/strong> Literary critics give their takes on the best of books of 2022<\/a><\/p>\n But in real life, the story doesn\u2019t just end. People, governments and cultures evolve.<\/p>\n With that in mind, the PBS NewsHour checked back in on some of the stories we told in 2022 to see where they stand at the end of the year.<\/p>\n Back in August, President Joe Biden announced a plan to eliminate up to $20,000 of student debt for more than 40 million Americans \u2013 the culmination of months of speculation about whether his administration would take that step, as well as activism from advocates and borrowers.<\/p>\n Earlier in the year, the PBS NewsHour spoke with Jalil Mustaffa Bishop<\/a>, an assistant professor of education at Villanova University, about the status of student loan debt amid the pandemic repayment freeze<\/a> and how the amount of debt disproportionately affects Black borrowers and borrowers of color.<\/p>\nStudent debt relief, interrupted<\/h2>\n