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Showing posts with label Constantine Yannelis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constantine Yannelis. Show all posts
Monday, December 7, 2020

Is massive student-loan forgiveness off the table? The insiders prefer long-term, income-based repayment plans and that's what student debtors are likely to get

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Remember the heady days of the 2020 presidential primaries? Democratic nominees proposed massive student-loan forgiveness, and some promised...
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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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, February 18, 2019

Cooking the Books: Federal Reserve Bank Says $166 Billion in Student Debt is Delinquent, But the Crisis is Worse Than That

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Most Americans have confidence in what the Federal Reserve Bank says about the national economy. I know I do. But when the Federal Reserve B...
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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...
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, 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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