After weeks of waiting, the Biden administration delivered a blow to its own progressive agenda by scaling back its major campaign promise: forgiveness of student loan debt. Initially, Biden said that he would forgive student…
Topic: student loan debt
Biden announced billions in student loan debt forgiveness
At a time where inflation is raging, President Joe Biden wants to forgive student loan debt and was met with criticism more than praise. The Department of Education’s press release included the specifics of the…
Biden cancels student loan debt for 100,000 public service employees
Part of the Left’s agenda, when it comes to student loan debt forgiveness, is underway thanks to the Biden administration. CNBC reported that some student loan debt forgiveness has been rolled out by the Department…
Biden’s Education Department forgives $415 million in student loans
Student loan forgiveness is a rallying cry from the progressives on the political Left, and it appears that the Biden administration heeded their base’s call. The Department of Education said it will cancel student loans…
Rollout of government worker loan forgiveness is non-existent
The past ten months of the Biden presidency begs the following question: Does everything that the Biden administration touch end up in a disaster? The question comes at a time when the Biden Department of…
Bernie Sanders strong-arms Biden over higher education proposals
Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden has been strong-armed by self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to jointly propose a series of left-wing policies. Biden, long seen as a political moderate in the Senate,…
Senator Elizabeth Warren Does Not Understand the Student Loan Debt Crisis
Senator Elizabeth Warren, trying to remain relevant in the Democratic Party primaries, proposed a law that would wipe out student loan debt. Her proposal demonstrates her lack of understanding of what caused the student loan debt in the first place.
Poor Graduation Rates are the Root Problem for Higher Education
The deputy chancellor and professor of psychological and brain sciences at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Robert Feldman, did not leave much to the imagination of what the root problem of higher education is today: poor and…
How About “America First” for College Admissions?
In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American…
Feds Should Stop Pushing College Students into Ruinous Debt
That sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? Why is the federal government pushing America’s future into ruinous student loan debt? This from George Leef: Bad borrowing decisions are almost impossible to escape. Consider the case…