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April 28, 2022
Grace Segers
“It Would Be Huge”: Democrats Cheer Biden’s Baby Steps on Canceling Student Debt
The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.
January 24, 2022
Molly Osberg
Who Gets to Be an Expert on Student Loans?
Borrowers are excluded from federal rulemaking committees for having a “conflict of interest,” while conservative-funded think tanks are cited as authorities by a credulous press.
April 19, 2021
Magazine
Ryann Liebenthal
The Long Fight to Cancel Student Loans
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
September 21, 2020
Alexis Goldstein
How to Save the Pandemic Generation
Canceling student debt will prevent irreversible wealth loss in younger Americans. But they’re not the only ones who would benefit.
May 18, 2020
Nick Martin
House Democrats Are Blowing Their Chance at Student Debt Relief
The longer Congress refuses to address the student loan crisis, the worse it will get.
February 7, 2020
Nick Martin
The Radical Possibilities of Not Paying Your Student Loans
A growing movement poses the question: We have the numbers, so what if we just stopped?
August 27, 2018
Sarah Jones
The government’s student-loan watchdog ripped a Trump appointee in his resignation letter.
July 17, 2017
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Kim Phillips-Fein
Trump’s Austerity Politics
How the president’s budget proposal grew out of New York’s financial crisis in the 1970s.
August 12, 2016
David Dayen
The Real Enemy of Education Reform: It’s the Colleges, Stupid
Colleges do very well under the status quo. And that’s bad for students and our economy.
February 17, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
How Much Is Too Much to Spend on College? One Study Has an Answer.
December 23, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
This North Carolina Campus Was Meant to Show Off the Future of Online Education
It hasn't gone according to plan
November 10, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
The Ten Baddest Elizabeth Warren Clips Out There
August 14, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The WSJ Cries for the Wrong Victims of Student Debt
July 31, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Higher Education Has Bigger Problems Than Student Loans
July 26, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Leon Panetta Quits the Awful College He Never Should Have Gone to Work For
July 10, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Why Black Colleges Might Sue the Obama Administration
June 11, 2013
Robert Gordon
Extending Lower Student-Loan Interest Rates Is Not the Answer
Senate Democrats need a smarter approach to reducing student debt
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