by Editors | Jun 16, 2014 | Education
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7FbqmqdzDc[/fve] A petition drive that drew more than 300,000 signatures in support of a student loan refinancing bill was not enough to prevent a Senate filibuster of the bill, but supporters of the effort are continuing the...
by Jeff Bryant | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog, Education
Anyone who remembers the spectacle of the Obama administration's maneuvering on the Grand Bargain for solving the nation's financial problems should feel in familiar territory watching how the current controversy over the Common Core State Standards is playing out....
by Dave Johnson | Jun 12, 2014 | Blog, Education
If you are crushed by student loan debt at a rate of 6 or 7 percent, maybe even higher, you would want to know who to hold accountable for killing the bill to let you refinance at a lower rate. That's how democracy is supposed to work. So did our nation's news media...
by Derek Pugh | Jun 11, 2014 | Education
Senate Republicans today sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act. The 56-38 vote fell shy of the 60 needed to prevent the bill, sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 11, 2014 | Blog, Education
President Obama signed an executive order Monday limiting student debt payments to 10 percent of their income, telling an audience in the East Room of the White House that he and his wife only paid off their law school loans about ten years ago. "This is why I feel so...
by Editors | Jun 10, 2014 | Education
Massachusetts native Andy Wordell spent much of the 1990s getting her undergraduate and graduate degrees, with a dream of becoming a social worker. Two decades later, she's still paying the price for pursuing that dream – with $75,000 in student loan debt. That's why...
