• Column: Are Republicans who got pandemic debt relief hypocrites for complaining about student debt relief? Yes

    You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...

  • Student loan debt | Biden-Harris administration set to extend student loan forgiveness to 30 million Americans

    RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- President Joe Biden announced a new plan on Monday

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    Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement

    By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Going to college is supposed to be the path to a more prosperous life. But the cost of getting a degree has become a financial albatross, weighing down borrowers from the day they graduate to the day they retire — if retirement is even possible. Student loan

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    Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement

    By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Going to college is supposed to be the path to a more prosperous life. But the cost of getting a degree has become a financial albatross, weighing down borrowers from the day they graduate to the day they retire — if retirement is even possible. Student loan

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    Student debt is haunting Americans from graduation to retirement

    By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Going to college is supposed to be the path to a more prosperous life. But the cost of getting a degree has become a financial albatross, weighing down borrowers from the day they graduate to the day they retire — if retirement is even possible. Student loan

  • White House Announces Billions More in Student Debt Relief

    The White House on Friday announced it will cancel another $7.4 billion in student loan debt, the latest in a string of loan forgiveness initiatives as President Joe Biden looks to take on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this fall.

  • Demands for repercussions after ISU student posts racist video

    An Indiana State University student’s racist comments, ISU community members — and those who found the video after it went viral — are speaking out.

  • Students in Iran threatened with prosecution for graduation dance video

    Al-Zahra University in Bushehr will pursue legal action, says its president, in a move labelled ‘absurd’ by human rights lawyersA group of Iranian students have been threatened with prosecution after a video of them dancing after their graduation emerged on social media this week.In the now viral video, a group of about 11 female students from Al-Zahra University in the coastal city of Bushehr, in south-west Iran, were seen dancing and riding a motorcycle. Continue reading

  • Biden’s $50 billion student debt bribe

    For all that the president’s promoters have pretended that Joe Biden is on the brink of a comeback, the octogenarian certainly isn’t acting like he’s winning his reelection. As members of the Federal Reserve openly contemplate whether worsening inflation means the central bank will pass any interest rate cuts before Election Day, Biden has attempted […]

  • Biden proposes new student-debt relief. Here's who would benefit

    After months of hearings and negotiations, the Biden administration announced its latest plans Monday for student debt relief, proposing changes that would save about 30 million borrowers billions of dollars in total. The plans aren't as sweeping as the across-the-board loan forgiveness of up to $20,000 per borrower that Biden ordered in 2022, a measure the Supreme Court threw out last year. But they go further than what the administration proposed in the wake of the justices' ruling, offering...

  • The real reason Republicans oppose efforts to cancel student debt

    I don’t get it and I’m hoping you can help me figure it out. Why do Republicans oppose President Biden’s efforts to cancel student debt?This Tuesday, seven states, led by Missouri’s Republican Attorney General, sued the Biden administration to stop his most recent attempt to reduce student debt. In a separate lawsuit, ten other Republican-controlled states filed a separate lawsuit to try to block the same Biden effort.The week before, somebody slipped this little gem into Maria Cantwell’s...