If they auto-enroll everyone in their newly generous income-driven repayment plan, it will significantly take the sting out of resuming payments.
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Joe Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Is a Good Start
But more reform is needed to attack cost bloat in American higher education.
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Education Department Won’t Hold For-Profit College Executives Personally Accountable
A top official at the department claims he needs executives’ personal signatures on specific documents to make them financially liable for defrauding their students. But he already has them.
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All Corinthian College Loans to Be Canceled
Thanks in large part to activist work from a group of debt strikers,
over half a million borrowers of the defunct for-profit college chain will have their
loans forgiven.
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Means-Testing Student Debt Relief: Big Hassle, No Results
Almost nobody will likely fall above the proposed income threshold. It’s purely a tax on borrowers’ time.
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Republicans Admit Biden Can Cancel Student Debt
A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.
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The Plight of Mills College Should Be an Alarm for American Higher Ed
The school is being devoured from the inside by its own administrators.
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Will Spiking Energy Prices Necessitate Student Loan Debt Cancellation?
The Biden administration has promised a decision by May.
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The Biden Education Department Drags a Bankrupt Cancer Patient Into Court
Despite vowing to change the way student loans are treated in bankruptcy, the administration is still using its discretion to limit payouts.
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Rural Illinois Schools Hit Hard by COVID-19
Are state education officials doing enough to support teachers and students?