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Showing posts with label student loan default rate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label student loan default rate. Show all posts
Monday, March 24, 2025

Trump moves student loan administration to the SBA. You got a problem with that?

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  Last month, The Wall Street Journal reported that 43 percent of borrowers who owe on their student loans weren't making payments. Acc...
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Friday, September 21, 2018

Department of Education's New Report on Student-Loan Casualties: A Dr. Strangelove Moment

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You remember that great scene from the movie Dr. Strangelove.   U.S. President Muffley (played by Peter Sellers) worries about the consequen...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Parent PLUS loans: African American families are being exploited by HBCUs

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Rachel Fishman wrote a report for New America titled "The Wealth Gap PLUS Debt: How Federal Loans Exacerbate Inequality for Black Fami...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

The Department of Education's Official 3-Year Student-Loan Default Rate is Baloney

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During the First World War, it is said, the British military kept three sets of casualty figures: one set to deceive the public, a second se...
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Sunday, June 11, 2017

"Meet The Three Headed Debt Monster That's Going to Ravage the Economy," writes MN Gordon

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A three-headed consumer debt monster is about to ravage our economy, writes MN Gordon in an Acting-Man essay that was republished on zerohe...
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Saturday, June 3, 2017

Betsy DeVos should resign as Education Secretary and Trump should replace her with a junkyard dog

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Betsy DeVos should resign as Secretary of Education in the Trump administration. I say this for two reasons: First, Ms. DeVos is too nice ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

Will the Student Loan Crisis Bring Down the Economy? My Pessimistic View

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Mike Krieger recently posted a blog on Liberty Blitzkrieg in which he argued that two issues will dominate American politics in the coming ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017

3,000 people a day are defaulting on student loans and Betsy DeVos rewards the student loan indusry. You broke our hearts, Betsy!

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Yesterday, the New York Times published an editorial scolding Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for allowing the student-loan servicers to...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

The Department of Defense Suspends University of Phoenix from Military Tuition Benefits Program: Senators John McCain, Jeff Flake and Lamar Alexander Ask DOD to Reconsider

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The Department of Defense recently sanctioned the University of Phoenix by suspending it from participation in the U.S.  Military's tuit...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

More Bad News About Student Loans: The Default Rate for Parent PLUS Loans Has Nearly Tripled Since 2006

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Inside Higher Education reported today that the default rate for Parent PLUS loans has nearly tripled since 2006.  According to the Departm...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

How high Is the student loan default rate? Buddy, you don't really want to know.

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  How many people have kissed my girlfriend, Eddy Arnold asked in one of his greatest hit songs. "How many, how many, I wonder. But I ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

Why President Obama's Proposal for Controlling College Costs is a Nonstarter

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In politics as in life, there are problem solvers and there are problem managers. President Obama is a problem manager.  Before he was ele...