Jun 30 Interest rates on new student loans will increase Tuesday By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press The change stems from a high-profile, bipartisan deal brokered last year by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama that ties the rates to the financial markets. Interest rates go from 3.86 to 4.66 percent on undergraduate Stafford loans. Graduate… Continue reading
Jun 23 Watch 'Ivory Tower' explores why American higher education is so pricey By PBS News Hour The rise in U.S. college tuition is unsustainable. That’s the argument of a new television documentary, “Ivory Tower,” which tackles growing worries and critique over college costs and student debt. Jeffrey Brown talks to filmmaker Andrew Rossi about the origins… Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch News Wrap: Sunni extremists extend control toward Baghdad with Tikrit takeover By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, a group of Sunni militants broadened their control in Iraq by capturing the city of Tikrit, only 80 miles north of Baghdad. The al-Qaida linked group took over Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, a day… Continue watching
Jun 09 Watch Will loan forgiveness offer long-term student debt solution? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 09 Obama moves to extend student loan payment relief By Josh Lederman, Associated Press The measure expands on a 2010 law that covered those who started borrowing after October 2007 and kept borrowing after October 2011. The executive order allows those who borrowed earlier to participate, potentially extending the benefit to millions more borrowers. Continue reading
Jun 09 How Lindsey Graham keeps beating them all By Terence Burlij, Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Mention Lindsey Graham’s name at a tea party rally, and the boos rain down. But despite angering some conservatives with his support for matters ranging from comprehensive immigration reform to President Obama’s nominees for the Supreme Court, the South Carolina… Continue reading
May 06 Selective colleges no more likely to produce satisfied grads By Kyla Calvert Mason How happy college graduates are in their workplaces and with their lives doesn’t depend on where they got their degree, according to a national survey out Tuesday from Gallup and Purdue University. The idea, the report’s authors say, was to… Continue reading
Apr 03 Watch For newly accepted students, demystifying the ins and outs of college expenses and aid By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 23 Is rural America a thing of the past? By Kristin Miller The image of the families like the Joads from The Grapes of Wrath loading up their meager possessions and leaving the farm for the city is a powerful one in the American psyche. It's almost as powerful as the image… Continue reading
Mar 23 Watch Kansas offers incentives to bring people back to the plains By PBS News Hour The Great Plains have been losing population since the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. NewsHour travels to Kansas to find out about a state plan that offers incentives to attract new residents to Rural Opportunity Zones. Will deals on student… Continue watching