by Jonathan D. Glater and Dalié Jiménez In a remarkable move, the Biden administration Wednesday announced that it would cancel millions of dollars in federal student loans, […]
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May 22 letters to the editor
America needs more civics classes We need more civics, history and government classes in our schools. When you compare the annual federal budgets for education, as a […]
What happens if we forgive student debt?
Yesterday, we discussed the generational cycle of student loan debt: how the pressure from parents, the (unfulfilled) promise of better economic fortunes and skyrocketing tuition over the […]
Student debt is a generational burden
The closer we get the midterm elections, the more debate we hear about student loan forgiveness. President Biden campaigned on tackling the student debt crisis, but he […]
Student loan bailout makes suckers out of rule followers
Two years ago during a campaign stop in Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was confronted by a parent angry over Warren’s proposal to forgive student loan debt. […]
Can Biden buy votes with debt relief?
by Byron York The 2020 Democratic presidential primary race was a bidding war in which the various candidates advocated spending trillions of dollars to enact sweeping progressive […]
Good news got green-lighted at last
by Martin Schram We are reporting once again from the intersection of the news media, policy and politics. From here, we can see how and why government […]
Biden got it wrong about America’s ‘college problem’
by Will Bunch A generation ago, when Bill Clinton wanted to prove to Middle America that he wasn’t a cartoon leftist, he publicly bashed a previously obscure […]
DeVos extends pause on loans
Extension will give students extra month payment free MORGANTOWN — Education Secretary Betsy Devos extended the existing student loan moratorium through Jan. 31, 2021 — exactly one […]
