Essays about Texas

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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Maxine Waters wants Americans to hassle Trump cabinet members in restaurants. Perhaps our politicians want to distract Americans from our real problems--like the student-loan crisis

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Stephanie Wilkinson , owner of the Red Hen, a trendy eatery in western Virginia, asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family to leave her re...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Should courts look for bad faith when distressed student-loan debtors ask for bankruptcy relief? Further reflections on Smith v. Department of Education

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Distressed debtors cannot discharge student loans unless they can show their loans constitute an "undue hardship" to themselves an...
Saturday, June 23, 2018

Dear taxpayers: I hope you approve of New York University's lavish compensation policy because you are paying for it

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American Enterprise Institute's report on graduate schools with low rates of graduate-student repayment included a list of 20 universit...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Researchers say Income-Driven Repayment Plans create moral hazard: Yuh think?

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More and more student borrowers are being forced into income-driven repayment plans (IDRPs) because they can't pay back their college lo...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

Smith v. U.S. Department of Education: A severely stressed student-loan debtor gets bankruptcy relief and the judge questions harsh interpretation of "undue hardship"

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Kirt Francisco Smith, a 39-year-old unemployed man with severe health problems, won a bankruptcy discharge of his student-loan debt--almost ...
Monday, June 18, 2018

American Enterprise Institute: A ton of graduate students who attended HBCUs are not paying down their student loans

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Jason Delisle, writing for the American Enterprise Institute, reported that a great many Americans who took out loans to attend graduate sc...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Barbara Erkson v. U.S. Department of Education: A 64-year-old woman, struggling to make ends meet, discharges $107,000 in student loans in bankruptcy

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Barbara Erkson, an unmarried 64-year-old woman, filed an adversary proceeding in a Maine bankruptcy court  in an attempt to discharge $107,0...