Tag: Student loans

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic candidates Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Miami.

Beltway Confidential

How Obamacare blew up the student loan crisis

Tiana Lowe Doescher · July 2, 2019 4:46 pm

Students walk on campus at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.

Free college? Sorry, adulthood means giving up your dreams

Isabella Redjai · June 27, 2019 10:29 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., flanked by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., right, calls for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019.

Red Alert Politics

Canceling student debt would relieve graduates like me of responsibility for our decisions

Bailey Griffith · June 27, 2019 5:11 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a forum in Miami.

Sanders senior policy adviser who advocates college debt forgiveness is '$180k in debt'

Jonas Wells · June 26, 2019 1:56 am

Mounting student debt burdens is not keeping young people from buying houses, according to a new study (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Beltway Confidential

If you’re in insurmountable student loan debt, it’s probably your own fault

Brad Polumbo · June 25, 2019 10:34 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announces his legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Bernie Sanders student loan debt forgiveness plan creates more inequality

Kaylee McGhee White · June 25, 2019 2:33 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., flanked by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., right, calls for legislation to cancel all student debt, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, June 24, 2019.

Bernie Sanders rolls out bill to forgive $1.6T in student debt

Ellie Bufkin · June 24, 2019 8:51 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Bernie Sanders to Elizabeth Warren: Don’t get into a bidding war with a socialist

Philip Klein · June 24, 2019 2:44 pm

The CBO estimated that in the next few years $460 billion of federal student loans would be refinanced under the Warren measure -- almost half of all outstanding federal student loans. (Thinkstock)

Red Alert Politics

Treasury Department recommends colleges require financial literacy courses

John Patrick · June 21, 2019 9:45 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Student debt is keeping doctors from rural areas

Cassidy Morrison · June 21, 2019 3:00 am

More employers offer student debt assistance

Melissa Quinn · June 21, 2019 3:00 am

Medical students at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss., attend the Ceremony of Thanksgiving in Memory of Anatomical Donors at the center's cemetery.

The REDI Act: A bipartisan solution to a national problem

Robert Ricketts · June 6, 2019 12:41 pm