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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What Biden Should Do Now
Today on TAP: With his domestic agenda still bottled up, it’s time for some unconventional moves.
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Biden’s Executive Actions to Protect Workers
Today on TAP: The president could be doing a lot more with his executive power.
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Will the Nation’s Largest Urban University System Become Free?
After years of austerity and a crippling pandemic, City University of New York is struggling to get students the choice of classwork they want.
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Student Debt Relief and Academic Bloat
Today on TAP: Let’s provide debt relief, but tie it to reversing the costly proliferation of executives in favor of rewarding teachers.
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In Opposing Student Debt Relief, Susan Rice Breaks With Her Family History
As head of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council, Rice has resisted broad-based debt forgiveness, though her late mother was ‘the mother of the Pell grant.’
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The Big Student Loan Lie
The numbers thrown around in the debate over whether to cancel student debt are made up.
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Biden’s Welcome and Overdue Executive Leadership
Today on TAP: An extension of the student debt moratorium
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The 1937 Project
Or maybe the 1979 Project. Either way, Democrats are blundering into premature austerity.
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How Biden Can Protect Students From Predatory For-Profit Colleges
Yet the Departments of Education and Justice are contradicting themselves.