Tag: Student loans

Middling But Costly Colleges are Scrambling

Naomi Schaefer Riley · August 31, 2017 10:23 am

Poll: ‘Game of Thrones’ outcome a bigger worry than paying student loans for some

Paul Bedard · August 25, 2017 2:46 pm

An Alarming Admission

Naomi Schaefer Riley · August 25, 2017 8:00 am

The High Cost of College

TWS Podcast · June 27, 2017 6:30 pm

The first half of the 20th century saw remarkable progress in aviation speeds, going from the Wright brothers' historic first flight at 7 miles per hour to breaking to the sound barrier just 44 years later.

Fly from San Francisco to Tokyo in just five and a half hours

Washington Examiner Staff · June 26, 2017 4:01 am

Borrowers were defrauded by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institutes. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Beltway Confidential

Poll: Indebted millennials view student loan debt as a greater threat than North Korea

Emily Jashinsky · June 21, 2017 10:23 pm

More than 40 million young Americans are responsible for paying back a student loan, averaging $25K. (PRNewsFoto/Money Management International)

Washington Secrets

Millennials say student debt as bad as global warming, worse than North Korea

Paul Bedard · June 20, 2017 4:25 pm

There are solutions out there that both "sound good" and do good. This isn't one of them. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

New student loan reform plan sounds good, but would only bleed taxpayers even drier

Beth Akers · June 10, 2017 12:00 am

U.S. student debt slipped from $1.261 trillion to $1.259 trillion in the second quarter, New York Fed says. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s populist student loan plan

alexander-holt, Max Eden · May 26, 2017 11:00 pm

A homeowner hands paperwork to a bank associate in an attempt to lower her monthly mortgage payment. U.S. household debt has finally hit a new all-time high. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Household debt hits all-time high, finally exceeding housing bubble

Joseph Lawler · May 17, 2017 3:00 pm

Unreported meetings with Russian officials or citizens have dogged the Trump administration and officials. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Pence’s finances are not complicated, disclosures show

Joseph Lawler · May 15, 2017 10:13 pm

The Higher and Higher Cost of Higher Ed

Jimmy Sengenberger · May 15, 2017 10:20 am