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Showing posts with label Elizabeth Warren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Warren. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Please, President Trump, get the U.S. the hell out of Ukraine

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 "Ignorance of history," Robert Conquest wrote, "is one of the most negative attributes of modern man." Indeed, among o...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

USAID funded transgender opera in Columbia: The Deep State Hates Flyover Country

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  Elon Musk, newly selected as the Deep State's chief villain, has discovered shocking cases of waste and abuse at the United States Age...
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 ...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Harvard is never having to say you're sorry

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If you’ve seen the movie Love Story (and I don’t recommend it ), you’ve heard Ali Macgraw deliver her famous line: “Love is never having to...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Politicians want $50,000 in student-debt relief: A good idea?

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  Top Democrats, led by Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren , are calling on President Joe Biden to forgive student-loan debt up to ...
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...
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, February 13, 2019

We are all peasants now: The student-loan crisis is destroying the middle class

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As the world changed, we reverted to social divisions that we'd thought were obsolete.  . . . A plain majority of the townspeople were ...
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Friday, October 6, 2017

Why won't Congress do a few things to ease the student debt crisis like stop the government from garnishing Social Security checks of elderly student-loan defaulters?

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James Howard Kunstler  posted a blog last week in which he challenged Congressional Democrats to introduce legislation to counteract the eff...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senate progressives should press for hearings on Educational Credit Management Corporation and the student loan crisis

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has had a brilliant career. She grew up in Oklahoma, went to law school, and wound up on the Harvard Law School fac...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Senator Elizabeth Warren grills Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf. But hey, Liz: What have you done to help solve the student-loan crisis?

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Senator Elizabeth Warren made headlines this week when she grilled Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf at a Senate Banking Committee hearing. Unles...
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