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Education Mar 18

Students who got partial loan relief to see full discharge

By Carole Feldman, Associated Press

Education Feb 04

WATCH: Dems push Biden to cancel $50,000 in student loan debt

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says data shows that canceling federal student debt would result in higher incomes, more jobs, greater homeownership rates and more small business formation.

By Associated Press

Education Apr 10

DeVos reaches settlement in lawsuit over loan relief program

The U.S. Education Department is promising to process student loan forgiveness claims for nearly 170,000 borrowers within 18 months as part of a proposed settlement announced Friday in a federal lawsuit filed in California.

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Nation May 22

Watch 8:09
Morehouse grads just got a stunning gift. What can help more students of color?

Morehouse College's class of 2019 was stunned on Sunday when their commencement speaker, Robert F. Smith, promised to eliminate all of the graduates' student debt. But the generous pledge also highlights the distinct wealth gap for recent African American graduates.

Education Dec 11

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Some teachers trapped by debt get Education Department help

The idea of the TEACH Grant program was simple: Teachers got a grant to pay for college or graduate school, and in exchange they agreed to teach for four years where they're needed. But an investigation by NPR found that…

Sep 11

Watch 6:09
How Betsy DeVos wants to defang rules for-profit colleges and reduce relief for borrowers

For years the for-profit college sector boomed, but consumer complaints about fraud led the Obama administration to crack down: Two major for-profit chains were closed, and new regulations provided more forgiveness for student debt. Recently, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos…

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Sep 03

Are you older than 60 and paying off student loans? Tell us your story.

By Megan Thompson

The PBS NewsHour Weekend reporting team is gathering personal stories from people who are retired or nearing retirement and are repaying student loans.

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Aug 02

DeVos abandons plan to award federal student loan servicing to a single company

By Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed

The Department of Education will still roll out a website through which borrowers can repay their loans, regardless of their provider.

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Mar 15

Column: By saddling students with debt, we’re depriving them of self-reliance

By Steve Gardiner

The burden of college debt will hang on our current students for years, but depriving them of the sense of pride and dignity they could develop by advancing their own lives could last a lifetime.

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Oct 21

When student loan borrowers complain, it’s most often about this company

By Laura Santhanam

About 41 million Americans carry more than $1.3 trillion in outstanding student debt. And millions “needlessly fall behind” on this student loan debt,…

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