Tag: Student loans

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing on June 5, 2018.

Betsy DeVos sounds the alarm on student debt, but will anything change?

Lauren Cooley · November 28, 2018 7:53 pm

This Jan. 26, 2016 file photo shows a "For Sale" sign hanging in front of an existing home in Atlanta.

Beltway Confidential

Millennials with student debt are buying smaller homes with bigger mortgages

John Patrick · November 4, 2018 1:00 pm

Speaker invitations are usually rescinded to appease a small, loud group of protesting students.

Red Alert Politics

The student loan bubble might be about to pop

Kate Hardiman · October 22, 2018 3:35 pm

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.

Education Department to implement Obama-era student loan regulation after lawsuit loss

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · October 13, 2018 1:20 am

Millennials do something right: Wait to get married and stay married

John Patrick · September 26, 2018 10:23 pm

New graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony in Piscataway Township, N.J., Sunday, May 13, 2018. Family and friends watched as over 18,000 graduates received their degrees on Mother's Day.

Can you guess millennials’ greatest source of debt?

Alexander James · September 19, 2018 9:47 pm

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has repeatedly bragged about reinventing City Colleges of Chicago, which went from having a 7 percent graduation rate when he took office to a 17 percent graduation rate today.

Trump administration loses lawsuit over delayed student loan rules

Gabby Morrongiello · September 13, 2018 4:12 pm

Students rallied through the heart of the campus Friday, calling on the college to join a national movement to offer more grants to low-income students so none have to rely on loans to attend Bates.

Red Alert Politics

Student debt crisis is worse than you think

Brendan Pringle · September 5, 2018 4:00 am

Brooklyn College students walk between classes on campus in New York.

House hopes to tame student loan crisis with financial literacy bill

Pete Kasperowicz · August 30, 2018 4:00 am

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during an event.

Don’t lower standards for federally subsidized for-profit colleges

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2018 12:00 am

Craigslist.org founder Craig Newmark works at his companyâs San Francisco, Calif., offices on Feb. 24, 2006.

Beltway Confidential

Craigslist founder shows how education funding should work

Nicole Russell · August 17, 2018 4:00 am

New York University has raised $450 million to fund full-tuition scholarships for all medical students

Brooke Conrad · August 16, 2018 5:14 pm