Tag: Student loans

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 5th, 2018, to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the fiscal 2019 budget for the Education Department.

Betsy DeVos faces lawsuit for garnishing wages of student loan borrowers amid pandemic

Mica Soellner · May 1, 2020 9:11 pm

Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders.

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Joe Biden embraces student debt cancellation in desperate pander to Bernie Bros

Brad Polumbo · April 11, 2020 9:00 am

Republicans sought a longer extension, but groups like the RSC demand spending cuts in return for more federal borrowing authority, and the GOP has been split for years over what level, and what kind of cuts to put forward. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

List: Industries and groups that got special consideration in the $2.3 trillion pandemic relief bill

Nihal Krishan · March 31, 2020 12:05 am

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders

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Context matters: After coronavirus, AOC and Bernie Sanders should stop calling student loans a ‘crisis’

Brad Polumbo · March 30, 2020 12:23 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Wildwoods Convention Center Oceanfront, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in Wildwood, N.J.

Trump suspends federal student loan payments for six months over coronavirus

Tim Pearce · March 27, 2020 9:51 pm

Betsy Devos orders halt of defaulted student loans collection for 60 days

Spencer Neale · March 25, 2020 6:15 pm

Pelosi coronavirus package includes $40B for schools and universities, mail-in voting

Susan Ferrechio · March 23, 2020 5:41 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Trump says children no longer required to take federal standardized tests

Mike Brest · March 20, 2020 4:44 pm

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-CA, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 4. 2015.

Maxine Waters proposes givings adults $2K a month and children $1K for the duration of the crisis

Nihal Krishan · March 18, 2020 10:40 pm

From left, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to base remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen of color to go back to their "brokenâ countries, as he exploited the nationâs glaring racial divisions once again for political gain, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S.

‘Squad’ member Ayanna Pressley calls for student loan cancellation in next coronavirus relief package

Andrew Mark Miller · March 18, 2020 4:03 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens to questions as Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington.

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AOC spreads disinformation to push socialism amid coronavirus panic

Brad Polumbo · March 14, 2020 9:00 am

In this September 2017 photo, students walk to class on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. As academia becomes increasingly competitive in attracting top students and staff, universities are turning to retail to create study, work, and play environments that set themselves apart.

Mnuchin floats suspending student loan payments as part of pandemic economic response

Jay Heflin · March 13, 2020 1:32 pm