U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during the Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 9, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters The Biden administration has withdrawn two major plans to deliver student loan forgiveness. The proposed regulations would have allowed the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education […]
Watch: ‘Enough is enough’ – Three dead in Wisconsin school shooting A student opened fire at a private Christian school in the US state of Wisconsin, injuring six people and killing a teacher and teenaged student. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes has so far declined to identify the attacker or their gender, but US media […]
United States Capitol. getty Our nation’s student debt crisis is a multi-faceted issue with several factors that make it considerably worse over time. Rooted in the problem is the rising costs of higher education, which are difficult for families to estimate or plan for. There are also more and more college degrees that have a […]
Damircudic | E+ | Getty Images More federal student loan borrowers have been able to get their debt discharged in bankruptcy over the last few years, thanks to new guidance that the Biden administration has issued. That more lenient policy may be at risk when President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House in January, experts […]
In the early morning hours of November 7, more than 12 police officers showed up outside at an address in Springfield, Virginia, knocked, broke down the door, and raided the family home of two Palestinian American students at George Mason University. University and Fairfax County police refused to show the family the warrant. One Fairfax […]
Mementojpeg | Moment | Getty Images Borrowers should ‘not let it get this far’ Borrowers should receive numerous notices from their student loan servicers before they go into delinquency or default, said higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. Usually, your payment has to be around 90 days late for it to be reported to the credit […]
Parents’ other claims rejected The Harrises also claim that school officials engaged in a “pervasive pattern of threats, intimidation, coercion, bullying, harassment, and intimation of reprisals.” But Levenson concluded that the “plaintiffs provide little in the way of factual allegations along these lines.” While the case isn’t over, the rejection of the preliminary injunction shows […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory last week should bring some clarity to Americans with student loans, but probably not in the way they’d hoped. A flurry of Biden administration initiatives and court rulings against them have left millions of borrowers uncertain about their future payments. Many federal student loans, in fact, are stuck in a period […]
A student student sits in a lecture hall while class is being dismissed at the University of Texas at Austin on February 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images Nearly a third, 30%, of federal student loan borrowers say they’ve gone without food or medicine because of their monthly bills. That grim […]
Savannah Britt owes about $27,000 on loans she took out to attend college at Rutgers University, a debt she was hoping to see reduced by President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness efforts. Her payments are currently on hold while courts untangle challenges to the loan forgiveness program. But as the weeks tick down on Biden’s […]
