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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The Pandemic Forbearance on Student Loan Payments Will End Soon: Federal Reserve Bank Expects Default Rates to Rise

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In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Education allowed 37 million student-loan borrowers to pause their monthly loan payments due to the CO...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Congress & DOE Can't Fix the Student Loan Program: They're Just Making It Up As They Go Along

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 Paolo Bacigalupi's apocalyptic novel The Water Knife  is a tale about the struggle for water in the desert Southwest. Lucy, one of the ...
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Saturday, March 19, 2022

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt: The Student-Loan Crisis is Getting Worser and Worser

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"It's a thankless job," Kurt Vonnegut observed in Titans of Siren , "telling people it's a hard, hard Universe they...

Baton Rouge Man Convicted of Massive Student Loan Fraud: Baton Rouge Community College Becomes Crime Scene

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 A few days ago, Elliott Sterling of Baton Rouge was convicted of massive student-loan fraud. As reported in the Baton Rouge Advocate , Ster...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

How Screwed Up is the Federal Student Loan Program? We Can Tell You, But Then We'd Have to Kill You!

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  Betsy DeVos, the Wicked Witch of the Midwest, was perhaps the most despised member of President Trump's cabinet. As Trump's Educat...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Like Prisoners on Death Row: 25 million student debtors may get another reprieve from making their student-loan payments

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Around 2,500 prisoners sit on Death Row in American prisons. Nearly 700 condemned men await death in the Golden State of California. A coup...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

A student-debt strike to pressure Congress for wholesale student-loan forgiveness simply won't work

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Student Debt Strike , an online Reddit community, advocates  for a mass student-debt strike as the best way to pressure Congress to grant wh...