Essays about Texas

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Friday, August 27, 2021

Never co-sign a student loan. I repeat: Never co-sign a student loan.

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 Joss recently wrote Stever Rhode ( the Get Out of Debt Guy ) and asked for advice about a student loan her father took out to help finance ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

LSU uses COVID money to clear student debt: "What a good boy am I!"

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 Louisiana State University announced this week that it will use $7 million in COVID relief money to clear debts that students owe the univ...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Online teaching sucks: Don't pay $50,000 a year to take classes in your pajamas

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 American universities are in a tight spot. When the coronavirus pandemic hit in March 2020, almost all of them closed their campuses and sw...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Insanity 101: Medical Doctor with $650,000 in Student Debt Will Pay $80 a Month Under Income-Based Repayment Plan

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Tamara Parvizi, age 51, sought to discharge $653,743 in student-loan debt in a Massachusetts bankruptcy court. That's a lot of debt--jus...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

The Feds messed up the federal student loan program: And everything they do to fix it just makes things worse

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 Many years ago, when I was a fledgling attorney, my senior partner gave me some advice I never forgot.  He told me that a competent attorne...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Permit Debtors to Cancel Student Loans in Bankruptcy After 10 years: Too Good To Be True?

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 Is this the year of Jubilee? Is this the year that distressed student-loan debtors finally get to shake off mountainous debt in the bankrup...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Newsweek reports: Parent Plus Loans 'Are Fraught with Peril'

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  Years ago, I was strolling along a lakeside hiking trail in a Dallas-area park. As I was walking across a wooden bridge, I looked down to ...