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Don’t You Forget About ‘Abbott Elementary’

The show that rejuvenated the network sitcom is a quietly subversive commentary on class politics.

Emails from the servicing company entice borrowers to refinance into private loans that wouldn’t be eligible for the announced debt forgiveness.

‘If part of the theory of adding an income cap was to make this more progressive, the real-world impact was to make it more regressive.’

There are significant legal hurdles, and if Democrats implement debt forgiveness quickly, significant political ones as well.

by Jane Chung September 6, 2022

We can have a better higher-education system, or we can have schools that cater to the elite and privileged. We can’t have both.

The American working class suffered terribly from COVID-19. Here are some of their stories.

Millennials and Gen Zers are the most pro-union generation since the 1930s and ’40s—and probably more so.

It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession.

by David Dayen August 30, 2022

There are a lot of ways the government can mess this up.

TAP

Today on TAP: To save a few bucks, the college leaves students to the tender mercies of a Catholic health system.