Education May 20 Calls for Biden to cancel the widespread financial burden of student debt grow louder
Nation Jul 25 Federal watchdog finds potential fraud in student loan repayment plans Among the most extreme cases reported by the Government Accountability Office are two separate borrowers who claimed to have 93 relatives in their households, along with 3,300 cases in which borrowers said they had no income even though federal data… By Colin Brinkley, Associated press
Making Sen$e Mar 28 Worried about taking on student loans? Here are some tips The No.1 worry for high schoolers applying to college is student debt, according to a recent survey from The Princeton Review. By Beth Kobliner
Politics Apr 23 Cruz’s position on student loans may hurt his appeal among young voters In the Senate, Ted Cruz opposed letting millions of Americans reduce their student loan payments. By Will Weissert, Associated Press
Politics Jan 12 Obama: ‘We have to make college affordable for every American’ Calling December's bipartisan reform of No Child Left Behind an "important step" in better preparing American students for the workforce, President Barack Obama said he will push for more college affordability in his final year in office. By Adelyn Baxter
Mar 19 Watch College Loan Overhaul Looms in Health Reform Package A new measure allowing college students to bypass banks and receive college aid directly from the government could pass alongside the health reform bill. Jeffrey Brown talks to Jason DeLisle of the New America Foundation and Renee Mang of Sallie… Continue watching