In other news Thursday, a top IRS official apologized at a House hearing for a 2010 conference that cost more than $4 million. Also, Senate Democrats and Republicans blocked each other's proposals to keep student loan interest rates from doubling…
Presidential Push to Stop Sky High Student Loan Interest Rates…
In other news Thursday, the IRS announced that it had replaced Lois Lerner, the official who oversaw the agents who targeted conservative groups. Also, the U.S. House voted to peg federal student loan rates to those set by the financial…
Will the Youth Vote, Crucial to Obama's Reelection, Actually Go to the Polls?…
Deadlines Looming, Congress Corners Deal on Student Loans, Transportation…
Jun 04

By Paul Solman
// We first set out to cover the student-debt story last year when we read David Graeber's book, "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and listened to him speak (online). Graeber was pushing a proposal for mass repudiation of student…
The State Of Student Loans: More Debt, More Defaults, More Problems…
Shields, Brooks on 'Mutual Pandering' Over Student Loans, Immigration Law…
Ignoring a veto threat by President Obama, House Republicans voted Friday to extend a 2007 provision that halves the rate on Stafford student loans, but the parties are split on how to pay for it. Jeffrey Brown, George Washington University's…
President Obama outlined a plan to speed up help for millions of Americans struggling with the cost of higher education. Gwen Ifill discusses the president's effort to ease the burden of student loans with "Generation Debt" author Anya Kamenetz and…
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