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Unsanitized: Why Relief for Mortgage and Student Loan Borrowers Must Be Automatic

by David Dayen April 22, 2020

Also, Donna Shalala admits to breaking the law, and the Democrats’ sad strategy. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for April 22, 2020.

Day One Agenda

Warren Commits to Using Executive Authority to Cancel Student Debt

by Marcia Brown January 14, 2020

Using the power granted under the Higher Education Act, Warren vows to cancel student debt on day one.

Politics

The Americans Joe Biden Left Behind on the Bankruptcy Bill

by Adam J. Levitin January 9, 2020

In 2005 amendments to the bill, Biden voted against borrowers drowning in medical debt, seniors, servicemembers, union members, and victims of deadbeat dads.

Working in America

Four Reasons Why Millennials Don’t Have Any Money

by Robert Reich January 9, 2020

Compared to the boomers, they’re way behind.

Politics

Warren’s Latest Plan Signals That It’s Time to Talk About Joe Biden’s Record

by David Dayen January 7, 2020

The bankruptcy expert releases a proposal that doubles as an indictment of Biden’s role in passing the 2005 bankruptcy law.

TAP

The Education Department’s Rip-Off Schemes Radicalize Its Own Staff

by David Dayen October 25, 2019

Today on TAP: Betsy DeVos’s mismanagement backfires

Day One Agenda

Cancel Student Debt—Almost All of It

by Marcia Brown September 23, 2019

An obscure, decades-old provision called “compromise and settlement” authority could allow the Department of Education to opt out of collecting trillions in debt.

Education in America

DeVos Fails Students, Again.

by Anu Roy-Chaudhury July 17, 2019

The higher education system is broken, but instead of fixing it, the Department of Education is intent on breaking it even more. The gainful employment rule was an Obama-era regulation that protected against the predatory loan practices of for-profit colleges by monitoring their students’ ability to earn back their debt after graduation. Last week, the […]