Essays about Texas

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Thursday, September 16, 2021

Nystrand v. Kingdom of Sweden: Another underemployed lawyer seeks bankruptcy relief

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A common saying when I was young (in the last century) was the old adage that lawyers are people who wish to make a lot of money but are ris...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Department of Education pauses collection efforts against student-loan debtors: Guaranty agencies garnish wages anyway

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In response to the COVID pandemic, the Department of Education allowed student-loan debtors to skip their monthly loan payments without pena...
Monday, September 6, 2021

"If I knew then what I know now, I probably would have skipped college": Freshman enrollment is down 13 percent at 4-year schools

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Freshman enrollment dropped an astonishing  13 percent last year, and overall college enrollment sank 4 percent.  What accounts for this ex...
Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Do you want to attend a university that has a "Boil Water Advisory" link on its website?

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 Hurricane Ida slammed into New Orleans on August 30th--the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Most of the city is without power, a...
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...