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Thursday, December 31, 2015

These few, these happy few, this band of brothers and sisters: Going into bankruptcy court without lawyers, a few intrepid souls obtained relief from oppressive student-loan debt

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And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The Department of Education's Lynn Mahaffie wrote a disingenuous letter outlining when the Department of Education will not oppose bankruptcy discharge for student-loan debtors under the Undue Hardship rule

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The Department of Education's Lynn Mahaffie issued a letter   last July outlining when DOE and its debt collectors will not oppose bankr...
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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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Friday, December 18, 2015

Deeper into the abyss: Obama introduces REPAYE, yet another income-based student-loan repayment plan designed to turn students into sharecroppers

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This week, the Obama administration introduced REPAYE , a new student-loan repayment plan.  Like PAYE ("Pay As You Earn"), REPAYE...
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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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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Racist hiring at the University of Louisville: Does it matter?

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 The University of Louisville got caught this week by openly doing what most universities are doing surreptitiously: hiring faculty member b...
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Up the Lazy River without a paddle: Universities use student fees to fund campus renovations and construction

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In spite of financial woes so severe that LSU president F. King Alexander ruminated publicly about institutional bankruptcy, Louisiana State...
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