The Biden administration is preparing to reopen two student loan repayment plans as soon as next week, giving borrowers more options to pursue loan forgiveness.
Many progressive Democrats recoiled in horror when President Biden pardoned his son Hunter for every crime he might have committed going back to 2014. Old Joe took a lot of heat from the legacy media for breaking his promise not to let Hunter off the hook for his...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Trader Joe’s grocery stores sell all kinds of delectable snack foods. Yesterday, I returned from Trader Joe’s with a box of gingerbread cookies. The box’s cellophane window revealed...
Student loan forgiveness and relief programs may be under threat. But some programs may be easier for the incoming Trump administration to repeal than others.
The legacy media, in a frenzy of mendacity and hypocrisy, claims to be disappointed by President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. After all, old Joe said repeatedly that he wouldn’t give his wayward child a get-out-jail-free card. “We haven’t...
A sweeping new student loan forgiveness initiative trumpeted by the Biden administration reached a key milestone this week. But Trump may scuttle the program.
Student loan forgiveness processing appears to have stalled for tens of thousands of borrowers under a key debt relief program. And advocates are getting worried.
People’s Republic, Kurt Schlichter’s post-apocalyptic novel, posits a breakdown of the American Republic as the Blue States collapse under the weight of woke politics and break off into a separate country. Schlichter labels the new nation-state the...
Millions of borrowers are in student loan forgiveness limbo. But making the wrong move now could have costly consequences.
Rather than provide immediate relief via student loan forgiveness, a new Republican bill would significantly reduce federal student loan interest rates.
Insanity, a sage once said, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” Under that definition, President Biden’s Ukraine war strategy is insane. This war has dragged on for almost three years, and the carnage only...
Borrowers can start taking steps now to prepare for anticipated changes to student loan forgiveness and repayment next year.
To be fair, Oprah Winfrey warned us. If Kamala Harris loses the presidential election, she said, “it is entirely possible that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast a ballot again.” Like millions of Americans, I misinterpreted Oprah’s dire...
Russia’s war with Ukraine has slogged along for more than a thousand days–longer than the Nazi siege of Leningrad during World War II. Russia suffered approximately 1.5 million casualties during the Leningrad battle, including about a million people who...
The Biden administration is preparing to reopen access to two critical programs in December that would provide additional pathways to eventual student loan forgiveness.
Here are six critical updates on federal student loan forgiveness and repayment initiatives as Trump plans his return to the White House.
As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House and several Biden student loan forgiveness plans are at risk, many borrowers will also see higher payments in 2025.
The future of several student loan relief programs may diverge, depending on a variety of factors including how aggressive the Trump administation’s repeal efforts are.
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist, warns that Donald Trump’s victory in this week’s presidential election could trigger “economic chaos” and damage the nation’s Social Security programs. Krugman failed to mention how...
Here’s what Donald Trump’s victory may mean for student loan forgiveness and repayment programs, and what to expect in the coming months.
I received a message on my Nextdoor app inquiring about the possibility of post-election violence in Baton Rouge. “Does anyone know if there are safety precautions in place in case of a riot after the election?” the writer asked. “I don’t...
The Education Department officially released proposed regulations last week for a new student loan forgiveness program tied to hardship.
Our nation’s presidential election is only a few days away, and Americans have concluded that both presidential candidates are afflicted with severe communication disorders. I’m not talking about foot-in-mouth disease. I’m talking about a profound...
A federal court seems inclined to strike down a key Biden student loan forgiveness and repayment program, with potentially big implications for IDR plans.
Kamala Harris held a rally in Houston over the weekend. Someone in the Harris camp promised an appearance by Beyonce, and thousands of Beyonce fans showed up in anticipation of a musical performance. Beyonce did indeed appear briefly, but she didn’t sing....
The Education Department has finally launched a new application that could provide a pathway to student loan forgiveness for a small but overlooked group of borrowers.
It’s Saturday evening at Lake Mary, Mississippi, and my family has congregated around our big-screen TV to watch LSU play Texas A&M in College Station. It’s a big game: LSU is ranked Number 8 in the national polls, and the Aggies are rated Number 14. Neither team...
The Biden administration said that millions of borrowers may be stuck in student loan forgiveness and repayment purgatory for months. But there may be some options.
Ukraine’s war with Russia is nearing its third anniversary. So far, things have gone swimmingly. As one US Senator boasted, the United States has hired the Ukrainians to kill Russians and we don’t have to get our hands dirty. What’s not to like? Everyone is lying...
Kamala Harris’s frenzied minions hate rural America and have written it off in their frenzied campaign to put their addled candidate into the White House. In their fevered minds, the battle for control of America’s soul is not a conflict between blue...
After months of anticipation, the Biden administration on Friday unveiled a new student loan forgiveness plan geared toward hardship. But will it get implemented?
This week, the Education Department released updated guidance for the SAVE plan, with big implications for student loan forgiveness under other IDR plans.
“Kamala Harris,” James Howard Kunstler pithily observed, “was just pulled out of a hat, like a rabbit. And everybody involved knew she was a dud, a slow learner, inattentive, not well-educated, lazy, possibly high a lot of the time, self-medicating...
The Biden administration announced that $74 billion in student loan forgiveness has now been approved for borrowers under a key program. But will this program last?
A major student loan servicer is facing accusations that it mishandled borrower accounts, jeopardizing loan forgiveness and reduced payments for hundreds of thousands.
The Biden administration has extended a pause on involuntary collections activities for certain student loan borrowers, providing a three month extension of relief.
