Married student loan borrowers can breathe easier after the Department of Education walked back an earlier statement suggesting big changes to payment calculations.
The Department of Education has released several major updates on the processing of income-driven repayment plan requests submitted by federal student loan borrowers.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold … The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats (1919) “The Second Coming,” Yeats’s famous apocalyptic poem, has been cited in every era since he...
I live off a gravel road in the floodplain of the Mississippi River. No levee protects my side of the river in southwest Mississippi, and floodwater inundates my property every spring with melted snow and rainwater from up north. When the Mississippi River is at...
Student loan payments may dramatically increase next month for married borrowers, suggests a legal filing by a Trump administration official.
In an op-ed essay that appeared in my local newspaper yesterday, Gene Lyons wrote that he is retiring mainly due to Donald Trump, whom Lyons described as an “incompetent sociopath and career criminal.” Lyons believes President Trump “will bring the...
If a recession happens while the federal student loan system remains mired in turmoil, it could have major implications for student loan borrowers.
Millions of Americans are worried about the stock market, which tanked last week. People saw their retirement accounts shrink dramatically, which is scary. However, no one is thinking about the stock market on Lake Mary Road this week. Instead, our minds are focused...
If enacted, these reforms could cut off access to affordable payments, eliminate student loan forgiveness, and trap people in a lifetime of debt, warn advocates.
Democrats have morphed from being the Party of Chaos to the Party of Chicken Little. For years, the Dems accused Donald Trump of colluding with Russia, in a desperate attempt to kill him politically. That didn’t work because Trump, rising like a phoenix, was...
Today I presented brief comments at a meeting of NACIQI, the U.S. Department of Education’s advisory committee charged with reviewing the performance of the private accrediting agencies that oversee quality and integrity at American colleges and universities. With...
Facebook’s ad library displays current ads, these from for-profit American Intercontinental University A nonprofit advocacy group sued Meta this week, contending that the tech giant’s Facebook and Instagram platforms facilitate the targeting of ads for for-profit...
A for-profit college owner whose schools were in direct violation of the rules of their accreditor, ACCSC, has returned to a seat on the board of that accreditor after only a brief absence. Carol Palacios, executive director of Miami’s Atlantis University, was serving...
We’ve had the rule of law in this country since 1776, when the colonies declared independence from King George III of England. Our democracy has been deeply flawed in many ways since then. But we’ve never gone as backward, and downward, as we have since inauguration...
Twenty-one Democratic state attorneys general sued President Trump and Secretary of Education Linda McMahon today, 48 hours after the Department of Education announced it was firing more than 1,300 employees, which, combined with previously Trump-Musk efforts to cull...
Many top for-profit college industry owners supported Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House. They had benefitted when, during Trump’s first term, his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, largely ended federal regulatory and enforcement efforts to hold...
Bloomberg reports that the private equity firms Apollo Global Management and Vistria Group are considering a sale or an initial public offering for the for-profit school they jointly own, the University of Phoenix. Unnamed sources told Bloomberg an IPO could occur as...
geehairimages, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons That school, part of the prominent Paul Mitchell beauty chain, had violated the rules of the accreditor, the National Accrediting Commission of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences, requiring that institutions maintain sound...
Nenad Stojkovic, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Editor’s Note: This piece highlights the findings of Cut Short, a new, comprehensive investigation by think tank New America into the troubling realities of cosmetology education. The full report unpacks how for-profit...
Although President Donald J. Trump last month signed an executive order directing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education,” and...
Advocates and legal experts have warned that Trump’s attempts to restrict student loan forgiveness under PSLF may be illegal. But he might try, anyway.
Student loan forgiveness programs are being targeted on multiple fronts through executive actions, legal challenges, and legislation. Here’s where things stand.
Over the past several months, Congressional Democrats have descended into demogagery, profanity, and clownisness as a way of expressing their hatred and contempt for President Donald Trump and his political agenda. Representative Al Green disrupted a joint session of...
The Department of Education took a key step to initiate a process that could result in major changes to federal student loan forgiveness and repayment programs.
Donald Trump and his supporters have repeatedly been battered by biased or hostile judges in the DC Circuit–a rat’s nest of hacks for the Democratic Party. The January 6 protesters were treated horribly by some of these judges, and the Trump...
The U.S. Department of Education formally reopened a critical student loan forgiveness program for borrowers with medical impairments last week.
While the landscape is changing by the day, understanding these important dates for 2025 may help student loan borrowers navigate their options.
This week, the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the problem of biased federal judges in the D.C. Circuit. The Trump administration has fared poorly before several DC Circuit judges, and there is ample evidence that some judges are biased in favor of the...
Student loan borrowers got a much-needed court victory after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop dismantling a key agency.
Here’s what student loan borrowers should know about President Trump’s announcement that he would transfer federal student loans to the SBA.
Of all the Trump-hating media outlets that hate Trump–and there are dozens of them–the Guardian is the most brazen and unprincipled. Thus, I was not surprised to find Alexander Hurst’s Trump-bashing opinion piece on the Guardian’s website. ...
There have been several developments this week that will impact millions of student loan borrowers trying to navigate an array of repayment plans embroiled in turmoil.
“Social Security is breaking down,” the Washington Post cried out yesterday, and the Democratic National Committee joined in the alarm. “Long waits, waves of calls, website crashes,” reads the WaPo subheading. Chaos reigns is the implicit...
In the evening of my life, I am painfully aware of the mistakes I made when I was young, and I’ve grown more tolerant of mistakes made by others. A few weeks ago, someone in the Trump administration. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, was inadvertently...
The Trump administration indicated that it would take steps to reopen applications for key student loan plans this week after a legal challenge. But there’s a catch.
New lawsuits may decide the fate of President Trump’s efforts to close the Department of Education and remake the federal student loan system. Here’s where things stand.
