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Showing posts with label Brookings Institution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brookings Institution. 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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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Flagship Universities Are Enrolling More Out-of-State Students: That May Be A Good Thing

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 Aaron Klein, writing for Brookings Mountain West , reported recently that public flagship universities admit more out-of-state students now...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

A student-debt strike to pressure Congress for wholesale student-loan forgiveness simply won't work

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Student Debt Strike , an online Reddit community, advocates  for a mass student-debt strike as the best way to pressure Congress to grant wh...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Online teaching sucks: Don't pay $50,000 a year to take classes in your pajamas

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 American universities are in a tight spot. When the coronavirus pandemic hit in March 2020, almost all of them closed their campuses and sw...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Teaching wild hogs to dance: Brookings says for-profit college system is broken and thinks it know how to fix it

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 The Brookings Institution published a report this week calling attention to the for-profit college system's enormous abuses. "For...
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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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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Thursday, May 24, 2018

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is a train wreck, and $350 million won't fix it.

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The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF), created by Congress in 2007, allows people in public service jobs to make income-based s...
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, April 3, 2018

Betsy DeVos and the Republicans wants to dump the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program: Big Mistake

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Betsy DeVos and the Republicans want to dump the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)  because the program is too expensive. Acc...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Student loans--the other debt crisis. Credit Slips essay by Alan White

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Student loans - the other debt crisis posted by Alan White  at creditslips.org In a low unemployment economy, an entire generation is...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Black students and the student loan crisis: African Americans suffer most

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Judith Scott-Clayton and Jing Li published a report for the Brookings Institution last month on the disparity in student-debt loads between...
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Friday, November 4, 2016

Psychological Costs of Student-Loan Debt: A Critique of Game of Loans by Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos

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As I have pointed out more than once, several policy organizations argue tirelessly that worries about the nation's student-debt crisis ...
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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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