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Showing posts with label Sandy Baum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sandy Baum. Show all posts
Thursday, January 28, 2021

The Parent Plus Program was a policy blunder that hurts low-income and African American families: Shut It down

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Our government's Parent PLUS Program is an insidious scheme to lure low-income parents into taking out student loans so their kids can g...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

"Broken and at risk of collapsing": Sandy Baum's excellent recommendations for reforming DOE's income-based student-loan repayment system

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Sandy Baum published a short essay yesterday in Chronicle of Higher Education titled "Don't Get Rid of the Income-Based Loan Repay...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Social Security offsets imposed on elderly student-loan defaulters: Heartless and Pointless

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. Tennessee Williams If you are in your late 50s or early 60s, you...
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Friday, December 2, 2016

Sandy Baum's new book on student debt contains some good ideas

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In the past,  I have been critical of Sandy Baum's work on the federal student-loan program. In my view, she sometimes drastically under...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Harvard Economist N. Gregory Mankiw Provides a Lazy and Self-Serving Answer to Why College Costs So Much

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Harvard Professor N. Gregory Mankiw wrote a lazy and self-serving op ed essay in the New York Times today, in which he purported to explain...
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Sunday, April 12, 2015

The Urban Institute's Sandy Baum: Is She a Bag Man for the Higher Education Industry?

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My favorite scene in the movie Michael Clayton is a dialogue between Michael Clayton (played by George Clooney), who is a lawyer in a 600-p...
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Monday, November 4, 2013

President Obama Pushes Income-Based Repayment Plans for Student-Loan Debtors: Madness! Madness!

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The U.S. Department of Education is sending e-mails to selected student-loan borrowers, urging them to consider signing up for income-based...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Only suckers pay the sticker price. The College Board says college costs at private colleges went down over the past 10 years. Really?

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I think the hand-wringing about the trend [in college costs] is greatly exaggerated.                                                   ...