by Beth Holmes | Jun 29, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Justice Alito, Jr. may have taken expensive gifts from Paul Singer, a billionaire currently fighting for the Supreme Court to block student-loan forgiveness. In 2008, Washington D.C. was beginning to (very casually) toss around the idea of student-loan forgiveness...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Student loan forgiveness is, as for the past several years, a political firestorm and a point of national division. President Joe Biden’s administration has a plan to ease or erase the student debt of up to 43 million people, approximately one in eight...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 29, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Defrauded borrowers are to be forgiven almost $4 billion in debt by the Department of Education, in the continuing fallout of ITT Technical Institute. Until 2016, ITT Educational Services was one of the largest for-profit educational operator in the U.S. It shut its...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 25, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
The Department of Education should not exist, according to former secretary of education Betsy DeVos at a conservative group event. Betsy DeVos, daughter of billionaire Edgar Prince whose brother is the founder of notorious private military Blackwater, was the U.S....
by Beth Holmes | Apr 25, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Student borrowers are getting help, as the U.S. Department of Education cancels federally-held debt for 40,000 and offers help for over 3.5 million more. “Student loans were never meant to be a life sentence, but it’s certainly felt that way for borrowers locked...
