Essays about Texas

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

Massive student-loan forgiveness is now a mainstream idea: Even Al Jazeera is on board

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Around 45 million Americans owe a total of $1.6 trillion in student loans, and approximately 20 million of those debtors are not paying the...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Coronavirus bailouts for the casinos but nothing for harried student-loan debtors: Let'em eat cake!

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Congress turned on the money spigot last month and spewed out cash to millions of people and businesses that were hurt by the coronavirus ...
Saturday, April 25, 2020

Laurina Bukovics v. ECMC: An Illinois woman took out $20,000 in student loans, paid back $29,000 and still owed $80,000

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Laurina Kim Bukovics enrolled as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin in 1985 and graduated five years later. She took out about $20,00...
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Friday, April 24, 2020

Living in the Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler: A book review

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James Howard Kunstler, prolific blogger, novelist, and social commentator, has written a new book titled  Living in the Long Emergency . Y...
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Recession or Depression? The people who make things are out of work while the people who do very little are still getting paid

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What is the difference between a recession and an economic depression? According to one adage, a recession occurs when a lot of people are...
Monday, April 20, 2020

Coronavirus is a black swan event for regional public colleges: Many will be forced to close

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A black swan event is an unexpected occurrence that has potentially devastating consequences. For higher education, the coronavirus pandemic...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Growing up poor in western Oklahoma: The Kool-Aid years

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My parents grew up in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. And when I say Dust Bowl, I'm not talking about the generic, dust-parc...