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Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wall Street Journal. Show all posts
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Would You Flip Burgers For $12 an hour? I Thought Not

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  I live near a Sonic Drive-In restaurant that has been closed lately during business hours. At first, I thought it closed for good, but yes...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Baylor University Loses Its Way: Low-Income Parents Take Out Loans So Their Kids Can Attend a Pricey School

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Baylor University, a Baptist institution located in Waco, Texas, is a well-respected school. Over the years, it has risen steadily in the co...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Newsweek reports: Parent Plus Loans 'Are Fraught with Peril'

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  Years ago, I was strolling along a lakeside hiking trail in a Dallas-area park. As I was walking across a wooden bridge, I looked down to ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Will an Ivy League degree make you LESS employable?

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 In a recent Wall Street Journal essay , R. R. Reno, Editor of First Things , wrote that he had stopped hiring graduates from elite college...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

What will happen to you if you take out student loans to get a liberal arts degree and can't find a job?

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 Late last year, the University of Vermont announced it will shut down two dozen academic programs with low enrollment.  Geology, religion,...
Saturday, December 5, 2020

Parent Plus Loans at Historically Black Colleges: Should Parents Jeopardize Their Financial Future so their Children Can Go to an HBCU?

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Andrea Fuller and Josh Mitchell of the  Wall Street Journal have done some excellent reporting over the years on the student-loan crisis. F...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Toilet-paper college degrees paid for with toilet-paper money: DOE's expert says taxpayers on hook for $400 million in student loans

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 Our old friend, the U.S. Department of Education, released an internal report showing that the U.S. government will probably lose about $43...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

George Floyd gets 3 funerals: Who mourns the death of 2 black police officers?

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Many years ago, I was driving on a lonely stretch of highway in northeast Louisiana when I was stopped for speeding by a Madison Parish depu...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Mike Meru racked up $1 million in student loans to go to dental school. Will he ever pay it back?

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Perhaps you read Josh Mitchell's story in the Wall Street Journal about Mike Meru, who took out $600,000 in student loans to go to den...