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Showing posts with label Alan and Catherine Murray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alan and Catherine Murray. Show all posts
Monday, December 17, 2018

Good News out of Kansas: A compassionate bankruptcy judge grants a 59-year-old debtor a partial discharge of her student loans

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The Remarkable Case of Vicky Jo Metz Twenty-seven years ago, Vicky Jo Metz , took out $16,613 in student loans to go to community college....
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article on student debt crisis: You should read it

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If you believe in social justice and basic human decency, you must read Matt Taibbi's article on the student-loan crisis that appeared ...
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Saturday, October 7, 2017

Alan and Catherine Murray discharged more than $200,000 in student loans in a Kansas bankruptcy court and their victory was affirmed on appeal: Good news for middle-income college borrowers

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In a previous essay , I wrote about Alan and Catherine Murray, a married couple in their late forties who defeated Educational Credit Manage...
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Friday, April 21, 2017

Income-Driven Repayment Plans for Managing Crushing Levels of Student-Loan Debt: Financial Suicide

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By the end of his first term in office, President Obama knew the federal student loan program was out of control. Default rates were up an...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

The New York Times rightly criticizes Betsy Devos for rescinding DOE directive forbidding lenders from gouging student-loan defaulters: But the Times ignores the harm caused by income-driven repayment plans

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A few days ago, the New York Times  criticized Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for rescinding a Department of Education directive forbidd...
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Thursday, April 6, 2017

The Student Loan Crisis is WORSE than the 2008 Housing Crisis: The Return of "The Big Short"

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As everyone knows, the housing market collapsed in 2008, triggering a major economic crisis in the United States. The nation descended into...
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Friday, March 31, 2017

Student Debtors in the Bankruptcy Courts and the Battle of Britain: "Never have the few come from the ranks of so many"

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The Battle of Britain was perhaps the most thrilling episode of the Second World War. During the summer and autumn of 1940, Hitler sent the ...
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