Tag: Student loans

The discussion at the White House Eisenhower Building centered on the rising national debt, the decline in skills-based training, and the lack of autonomy that teachers have to innovate at the local level. (Michael Kranewitter / Wikimedia Commons)

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White House hosts conversation on Higher Education

Washington Examiner · November 19, 2017 5:01 am

Millennials are set to be the least entrepreneurial generation in the last 100 years. There are key factors contributing to that: the Great Recession, student load debt, helicopter parents, and American oligopolies, among others. (iStock)

Millennials are the least entrepreneurial generation in the last 100 years, but why?

Brendan Pringle · November 18, 2017 5:01 am

It's true that young people today seek more purposeful work and aren't as consumed by material possessions, but they also need to sustain themselves and the lifestyle they desire. (iStock by Getty Images)

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Study: Millennials care about money more than previously thought

Brendan Pringle · November 10, 2017 5:50 pm

The bill would slash deductions, several of which millennials take advantage of, or perhaps may have planned to use in the near future. (iStock photo)

3 ways the GOP tax plan will most directly affect millennials

Jon Street · November 8, 2017 9:18 pm

By by consolidating tax benefits for current students and eliminating the Student Loan Interest Deduction, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will benefit all generations through its policies in the short and long run. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Don’t fret over the student loan deduction – millennials will be much better off under tax reform

Jimmy Sengenberger · November 8, 2017 5:01 am

Good-paying jobs that don't require a degree exist, and people who make that choice don't have to spend paying off student loans, the labor secretary said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Higher education not for everyone, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta says

Sean Higgins · October 30, 2017 7:03 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2017 file photo, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center in Bellevue, Wash. The Associated Press has learned the Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit-colleges. That would mean abandoning the Obama administration's policy of fully erasing that debt. Under President Barack Obama, tens of thousands of students deceived by now-defunct for-profit schools had over $550 million in such loans canceled completely. The possible change could leave many students scrambling after expecting full forgiveness. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Betsy DeVos may stop forgiving all federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges

Washington Examiner Staff · October 29, 2017 2:52 am

West Virginia had never ranked higher than 49th in the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reformâs lawsuit climate ranking. But in 2017, the state jumped from 50th to 45th in a new national survey.

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Joana Suleiman, John Siciliano · September 18, 2017 4:01 am

A total of 39 senators and representatives wrote to DeVos Thursday asking for an explanation of the decision, and who the agency may have worked with before reaching it. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Democrats demand answers from Betsy DeVos on student loan decision

Joseph Lawler · September 15, 2017 2:00 pm

After unexpectedly being cut off from student loan data by the Department of Education last week, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Richard Cordray is seeking to mend the fence, arguing that the two departments would work better together. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

CFPB boss to Betsy DeVos on student loans: We’d work better together

Joseph Lawler · September 7, 2017 10:10 pm

The bureau, its spokesman said, has a responsibility to protect student borrowers. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

CFPB ‘surprised and disappointed’ after being cut off from student loan data

Joseph Lawler · September 5, 2017 8:20 pm

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray and his agency have, according to the Education Department, used the data "to expand its jurisdiction into areas Congress never envisioned. This latest expansion is characteristic of an overreaching and unaccountable agency." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Department of Education kills Obama-era deal to share student loan data with CFPB

Joseph Lawler · September 1, 2017 9:38 pm