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Showing posts with label Bernie Sanders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bernie Sanders. Show all posts
Monday, March 3, 2025

Did Senator Chris Murphy sabotage President Trump's Oval Office meeting with President Zelensky to sign an important mineral rights agreement?

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  Like an overprotective mother comforting a spoiled child, progressive Democratic politicians were quick to comfort President Vladimir Zel...
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Monday, February 3, 2025

Is Senator Bernie Sanders auditioning for the lead role in the Bad Grandpa sequel?

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Winter in southwest Mississippi is a lovely time. Even in February, the woods are dotted with green trees: magnolias, cedar, and pine.  Now ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Massive student-loan forgiveness is now a mainstream idea: Even Al Jazeera is on board

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Around 45 million Americans owe a total of $1.6 trillion in student loans, and approximately 20 million of those debtors are not paying the...
Saturday, March 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and broad relief for battered student-loan debtors: Congress needs to go big or go home!

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The coronavirus pandemic rolls along like a tropical storm gathering force in the Gulf of Mexico. Every day, it kills more Americans and...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Joe Biden and the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act: "It's not personal. It's strictly business."

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The 2020 presidential election is about eight months away, and I'm not going to tell you how to vote. If you hate Trump, you'll vote...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

Urban Institute: Thirty percent of student debtors are enrolled in Income-driven repayment plans

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The federal student-loan program is in crisis, but it is hard to figure just how big the problem is. The Department of Education annually...
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Sunday, January 19, 2020

Trump Administration is "woke" to the student-loan crisis: What can it do in 2020?

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Love 'em or hate 'em, student-loan debtors owe a debt of gratitude to Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren for putting the student-l...
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Monday, September 16, 2019

Higher education leaders oppose Democrats' proposal for free college: Why?

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College tuition has risen faster than the rate of inflation for the past quarter-century. While wages have remained stagnant, the cost of go...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Bernie Sanders wants to cancel $1.6 trillion in student debt: A bridge too far?

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Senator Bernie Sanders is running for President a second time. Last week he made the news with his proposal to cancel all federal student-lo...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Congressman John Katko introduces bill to make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy. Will presidential candidates endorse the bill?

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Last month, John Katko, a Republican congressman from New York, filed H.R. 770 , a bill that would make student loans dischargeable in bankr...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

A Big Nothing Burger: The FBI should stop investigating Jane Sanders, Bernie's wife and former president of Burlington College

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The FBI is investigating Jane Sanders, former president of Burlington College and wife of Senator and former presidential candidate Bernie S...
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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Millennials now outnumber Baby Boomers and they believe student loans should be forgiven: Politicians take note

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  Gordon Long authored an essay for MATASII.com (reposted on the Zero Hedge blog site) that contains some profound observations about the...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Governor Cuomo proposes free college education at New York's public institutions, but the for-profits and private liberal arts schools will likely oppose this plan

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Earlier this week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced his plan to offer a free college education at New York's public colleges an...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Suicides and a Jail Death in Anadarko, Oklahoma: Bitter, Angry and Frightened, Oklahomans will not vote for Hillary

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Last January, the Washington Post reported on a spate of suicides in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Four people committed suicide over a period of less...
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Thursday, July 7, 2016

Hillary embraces Bernie Sanders' plan for a free college education: God bless Senator Sanders

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You did it! You did it! You said that you would do it,  And indeed you did. I thought that you would rue it;  I doubted you'd do it. Bu...
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