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Student loans in the United States

A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended to give more Americans access to higher education. In its place, lawmakers created another profit center…
We live in a world where the difference between assets and liabilities has been blurred. In the old days, an asset was something you “owned”…
The American student loan crisis is often seen as a problem of profligacy and predation. Wasteful colleges raise tuition every year, we are told, even…
The Department of Education announced Monday that it is implementing a plan to forgive as much as $3.6 billion in student loans given to students attending schools…
Kyle Craig wants to go to graduate school, but just being an undergraduate is already drowning him in debt. “I’ve got student loans just like…
With all of that job creation being claimed by the Obama administration and disseminated by mainstream media outlets as signs of a sustained recovery you’d…
Last week President Obama announced a series of executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.” The initiative is partially an exercise…