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Showing posts with label Adam Looney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam Looney. Show all posts
Monday, October 3, 2022

I Got a Sweet Deal! Is Biden's new income-driven repayment plan too generous?

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 College debtors definitely have a friend in President Biden.  So far, his administration has approved $25 billion in loan forgiveness. In ...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

Pew Foundation says one out of four student-loan borrowers default within 5 years: But we already knew that.

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The Pew Foundation issued a report recently with this snoozer title: Student Loan System Presents Repayment Challenges .  Really? That'...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Brookings Institution researcher criticizes federal student-loan program: "It is an outrage"

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Last month, Adam Looney of the Brookings Institution released a paper that is chock full of ideas for fixing the federal student-loan progr...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

It's Magic! Betsy DeVos' Department of Education allows Grand Canyon University to call itself non-profit while its parent company reports profit margin of 27 percent

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David Halperin, the nation's best investigative reporter on the for-profit college industry, wrote an article recently on Grand Canyon ...
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Monday, August 27, 2018

Ben Miller, where the hell ya been? Center for American Progress finally wakes up to the magnitude of student-loan crisis

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Ben Miller, senior director of the Center for American Progress, reminds me of a fuddy duddy who falls asleep at a wild party in a friend...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Baby Boomers are stealing from the Millennials: Stocks and bonds for grandma and grandpa; perpetual debt for their grandchildren

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Baby Boomers are stealing from the Millennials. People in their 60s and 70s are retiring comfortably in sunny Florida or taking luxury river...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Student Loan Default Crisis grows worser and worser: Brooking Institution says minorities and for-profit students are hardest hit

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First of all, I realize that the word "worser" is not standard English. Nevertheless, "worser" appears in Hamlet (act 3...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Department of Education is slow to forgive loans of student borrowers defrauded by Corinthian Colleges: State Attorneys General urge DOE to move more quickly

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Yesterday, nineteen state attorneys general and the Director of the Hawaii Office of Consumer Protection delivered a letter to Betsy DeVos,...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

Alan and Catherine Murray are Poster Children for the Student Loan Crisis: Income-Driven Repayment Plans for Distressed Student-Loan Debtors are Insane

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In a recent post , I wrote about Alan and Catherine Murray, who won a partial discharge of their student-loan debt in a bankruptcy case deci...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Susan Dynarski's Fix for the Student Loan Crisis: Simplistic, Dangerous, and Ineffective

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Susan Dynarski published an essay recently in the Business section of the Sunday Times with the provocative title of " America Can Fix...
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Saturday, June 18, 2016

Student-Loan Default Rates Go Down As Enrollment in Income-Driven Repayment Plans Goes Up:" It Hurts So Much To Face Reality"

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Earlier in the week, the Department of Education issued a press release that contains good news about the student loan program. Or does it?...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

The Student-Loan Bubble: Will the rising level of student-loan indebtedness lead to a national economic catastrophe?

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This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Eliot                        The Hollow Men             In r...
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Friday, January 15, 2016

"Oh what a tangled web we weave": The Department of Education's three-year student-loan default rates are deceptive

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive! Walter Scott             Last September, the Department of Educat...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

NY Times Urges "Speedy Help for Victims of College Fraud," but the Times Does Not Go Nearly Far Enough

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Let's give the New York Times credit: it is on the right side of the argument regarding the federal student loan program. The Times ed...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

The deluge is upon us: University of Phoenix students owe the taxpayers $35 billion; and 45 percent default within five years

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Earlier this month, the Brookings Institution published a report on student-loan default rates; and some of its findings are truly shocking...
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