President Biden vetoed a bill that would repeal student loan forgiveness and reverse the current extension of the student loan pause. Here’s what it means for borrowers.
As the student loan pause ends, and borrowers await a decision on student loan forgiveness, Biden officials have promised new flexibilities to ease back into repayment.
If the Supreme Court rules against Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, borrowers will still have other potential paths to student debt relief. Here’s a rundown.
The student loan pause is actually, definitively coming to an end after over three years. Here are six critical dates and details that borrowers need to know about.
Two Democratic senators, along with a former Democratic colleague, voted with Republicans to repeal President Joe Biden’s sweeping student loan forgiveness plan.
The House has passed the debt ceiling bill. Here’s what it means for student loan forgiveness, repayment, and future student debt relief.
The Senate has advanced a measure that would repeal President Biden’s student loan forgiveness initiative, a strong indication that it may ultimately pass Congress.
The movie Shane, released in 1953, is a classic Western movie that depicts the struggle between good and evil. The good guys are homesteaders who want to establish farms and peacefully raise their families. The bad guys are cattlemen who hire an assassin to drive off...
President Biden has likely neutralized Republican efforts to reverse his student loan forgiveness plan. But he also confirmed that the student loan pause will end.
The potential changes, announced on the heels of several other improvements, are designed to streamline access to a key federal student loan forgiveness program.
Advocacy groups warned that if the GOP plan is enacted, millions of borrowers could have their student loan forgiveness credit reversed.
Biden will block a Republican-led effort to repeal student loan forgiveness, but his student debt relief plans remain under serious threat.
The Biden administration says there is no backup plan if the Supreme Court strikes down the student loan forgiveness plan. But here are some options.
I subscribe to the Houston Catholic Worker, the official newspaper of Casa Juan Diego, the Catholic Worker Hospitality House in Houston, Texas. My copy arrived in the mail yesterday, and I was disturbed to read that someone had stolen Casa Juan Diego’s ancient food...
Liz Faul, who writes for my local newspaper, reported a charming story about Blue Plate mayonnaise, made by a New Orleans company that’s been in business since 1927. As Faul’s story explains, Blue Plate recently rolled out a new label that will likely attract...
A new, bipartisan bill would update the rules for borrowers working in public service careers who apply for student loan forgiveness but leave their job.
As the future of student loan forgiveness and the ongoing student loan pause remains clouded, the Education Department has made it easier to lower payments.
Here’s what borrowers need to know, and when to expect a Supreme Court decision on Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
Millions of Americans don’t work. Some are unemployed and looking for work; others simply refuse to look for a job. In fact,12 percent of men in their prime working years aren’t in the workforce and aren’t looking for work. Millions of healthy men are...
Millions of student loan borrowers may be facing the highest interest rates they have experienced in years. But the impacts will not be felt evenly.
President Biden spoke at Howard University‘s commencement ceremony a few days ago, where he told his audience that “white supremacy” is the nation’s biggest threat. I’m not buying it. I live in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which is a majority-Black city. Our...
The Biden administration has tied the latest extension of the student loan pause to a legal battle over a separate student loan forgiveness program. But whether Biden will extend the pause yet again may depend on the fate of that program, as well as several other key...
I had a stroke last month, and I spent three weeks at a rehab center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During my time there, I was treated by several gifted occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech therapists. All my therapists were young women in their...
Someone asked Willie Sutton, the notorious bank robber, why he robbed banks. “Because that’s where the money is,” he replied. If you were to ask the elite universities why they are opening campuses in Washington, DC, you would get a similar answer: Because...
The Biden administraiton is in the early stages of implementing a major student loan forgiveness initiative. And new guidance recently published by the Education Department suggests the program will be even broader than originally envisioned.
Peter, Paul and Mary, the iconic folk singers from the 1960s, sang several songs protesting the war in Vietnam. “Where have all the young men gone?” they sang. “Gone for soldiers, every one.” And then the refrain: “When will they ever learn? When will they ever...
House Republicans are moving forward with a plan that would reverse student loan forgiveness approvals for millions of borrowers, setting up a showdown with Congressional Democrats and President Biden.
“Things fall apart,” William Butler Yeats wrote in “The Second Coming,” perhaps his most famous poem.”The center cannot hold.” Like many prophecies, Yeats’s prediction took a long time to be realized. Now, a little more than a century...
The Education Department announced that it has approved $42 billion in student loan forgiveness for at least 615,000 borrowers under new flexibilities for public servants.
Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s Surgeon General, issued an advisory a few days ago,alerting the nation to an epidemic of loneliness. According to Dr. Murphy’s report, about half of adult Americans experience loneliness, and the Surgeon General warned that loneliness...
Over 2 million borrowers have received $55 billion in student loan forgiveness under a variety of Biden administration student debt relief initiatives, according to the Education Department. And much more may be on the way in the coming months.
In one of its early school desegregation decisions, the United States Supreme Court expressed the hope that the day would come when there would not be black schools and white schools, but just schools. Now, nearly 70 years after the Court’s historic decision in Brown...
Last month I was in Tulsa dealing with a stressful family crisis. On April 16, I experienced the first of a series of minor strokes that culminated in a major stroke that paralyzed the left side of my body. I experienced my third mini-stroke at night while in a...
New details on when student loan payments and interest may resume following an expected Supreme Court ruling on President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan.
The Biden administration is sending out a new batch of emails to borrowers potentially eligible for student loan forgiveness under a recent class action settlement.
J. Budziszewski, a natural law scholar at the University of Texas, wrote a book titled Written on the Heart, in which he argues that all human beings know the difference between right and wrong. Budziszewski calls this capacity to recognize good and evil our baloney...
