by Jane Yurechko | Jul 17, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Senators met with President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night to hash out a student loan deal – and came up with another bad solution for students. Have they really not received the message yet? The types of deals they continue to push, which will...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 14, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Once this nation saw higher education as a citadel of learning, growth, and opportunity. Now student debt is being used as a cash cow to subsidize corporate tax breaks, while universities become incubators for corporate employees and cheap laboratories for...
by Jane Yurechko | Jul 12, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Republicans in the Senate rejected their own student loan deal today after the Congressional Budget Office released its potential cost. The CBO announced today that the bipartisan student loan deal created and pushed for by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), Lamar...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 11, 2013 | Minimum Wage
Progressives won a victory in Washington this week when the D.C. City Council stood up to Walmart and passed a bill that would require the retailer, and other nonunion big-box retailers, to pay their employees a $12.50 minimum wage. Walmart promptly announced that it...
by Jane Yurechko | Jul 11, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Late Wednesday night, after a bill to roll back to 3.4 percent the rate for subsidized Stafford student loans was filibustered on the Senate floor, a group of senators – including Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) – did the unthinkable. They agreed...
by Jane Yurechko | Jul 10, 2013 | Student Debt Relief
Once again, Congress has failed our students. Today, the bill to roll back student loan interest rates to 3.4 percent proposed by Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) failed to get cloture, meaning it will not be able to move forward for full floor consideration and an up-or-down...
