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Showing posts with label income based repayment plans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label income based repayment plans. Show all posts
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Biden's Student-Loan Forgiveness Application Lacks Adequate Fraud Protection: But Does That Really Matter?

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Honoring a campaign promise, President Biden will forgive $10,000 in personal student-loan debt owed by about 40 million college borrowers. ...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

College leaders are the new Marlboro Man--touting dangerous products to gullible Americans

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I'm old enough to remember when a lot of Americans smoked cigarettes. People smoked on buses and airplanes, they smoked in restaurants...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Murrell v. Educational Education Management Corp.: An Ohio Bankruptcy Court Misinterprets "Undue Hardship"

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Calvin Murrell was thrown out of work in 2000 due to knee and back injuries. Murrell then attended Stautzenberger College, a private, for-pr...
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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Monday, July 1, 2019

Hill v. ECMC: An Army veteran with PTSD sheds her student loans in bankruptcy

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Hill v. ECMC : A veteran seeks to discharge her student loans in bankruptcy Risa Rozella Hill enrolled at Wichita State University after g...
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Senator Elizabeth's Student-Loan Forgiveness Plan Isn't Radical: The Feds are Already Forgiving Billions of Dollars in Student Debt

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Adam Levitin , writing for Credit Slip , made a profound observation about Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposal to forgive massive amount...
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Friday, April 12, 2019

Democrats are "woke" about Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Senators Kaine and Gillibrand file legislation to overhaul PSLF

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The Trump Administration hates the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). Signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2007, PSL...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

USA Today reports that millennials are having trouble buying cars and homes due to burdensome student loans---that ain't the half of it

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According to a story published yesterday in  USA Today , fewer millennials are able to buy cars and homes because they are burdened with hig...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Democratic Party Platform Plank on Higher Education: A Big Pile of Horse Manure

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The Democratic Party released its Platform this week, or rather it released a draft marked "Deliberative and Predecisional." The...
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Thursday, June 9, 2016

The Student Loan Crisis and the Democratic Party Platform: Key Reform Proposals Would Entice Young Voters to vote for Hillary

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Hillary Clinton has a problem with young  voters. They went 3 or 4 to 1 for Bernie Sanders in the various Democratic primaries this spring. ...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

4.6 million student debtors are in long-term repayment plans, default rates are up, and President Obama's "best friend" is buying University of Phoenix: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold The Second Coming William Butler Yeats As William Butler Yeats put it, "Things f...
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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Brenda Butler,"poster child" for the student-loan crisis, will be done with her student loans in 2037--42 years after she graduated from college

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You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Interest, fees and penalties are burying millions of student-loan debtors--not the amount these poor people borrowed to go to college

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Sometimes, huge problems can be analyzed best by simply boiling down the complexity of a situation into a simple phrase.  For example, ...
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