(The Center Square) – Federal student loan debt is nearing $1.7 trillion, as more than 70% of graduates are not working in their degree field. Yet 72% of students across the U.S. believe their college tuition is a good investment, according to a new WalletHub survey.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education has proposed new rules aimed at holding colleges and universities accountable for programs that leave students with low-earning jobs as the federal student loan debt nears $1.7 trillion.
After two years of legal battles and confusion for student loan borrowers, a popular student loan repayment plan will be shut down — forcing over 7 million borrowers to find a new option.On Friday the Department of Education alerted borrowers on the federal Saving on a Valuable Education plan that they would need to switch...
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The Trump administration is leaning away from dramatic funding cuts and settlements with universities, and more toward standard tactics to try to limit funding.
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration confirmed Monday that it is considering selling portions of the nearly $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio to private sector companies.
(The Center Square) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance presented oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit this week, after filing an opening brief in June, asking the court to bring back a lawsuit brought by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy against the U.S. Department of Education over student loans.
As former President Ronald Reagan famously noted, if you subsidize something, you’ll get more of it. But when it comes to higher education, th…
President Trump is doing what no other executive has had the backbone to do: he’s taking a sledgehammer to the bloated federal bureaucracy and…
NEW YORK — Between collections resuming, courts blocking student loan programs and layoffs at the Education Department, borrowers might be con…