On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling eliminating student loan debt cancellation, the Biden administration scrambled to find a workaround. In the first week of July, about two weeks from the Court’s ruling,…
Topic: student debt
Rollout of government worker loan forgiveness is non-existent
The past ten months of the Biden presidency begs the following question: Does everything that the Biden administration touch end up in a disaster? The question comes at a time when the Biden Department of…
Generation Gap Narrows For Student Debt
Parents may finally have something in common with their children.
Is College A Great Deal For Women?
Women may make up more than half of the student population in most American colleges and universities but there is some evidence that this arrangement is not working out for them.
Poor Graduation Rates are the Root Problem for Higher Education
The deputy chancellor and professor of psychological and brain sciences at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Robert Feldman, did not leave much to the imagination of what the root problem of higher education is today: poor and…
How About “America First” for College Admissions?
In a recent article, “Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges,” The Washington Post stumbled on the truth about one of the factors affecting the rising cost of college for American…
How American Higher Education Turned into a False Promise
From our friend George Leef at the Pope Center: One is the proliferation of college graduates who can only find jobs that don’t call for college education. As the number of Americans holding college credentials…
Washington D.C. Area has the Worst Student Loan Debt Situation in the Country
From the College Fix: Six of the 10 richest counties in America are clustered around Washington, D.C. But the city itself has a big problem when it comes to student debt loads and availability of…
Dear Millennials: We Can’t Afford ‘Free’ College Tuition
It’s a great take from the Independent Institute. There is no such thing as a free lunch, as the old saying goes, so there’s no such thing as ‘free college tuition.’ Bernie Sanders would probably…
Young Convinceables
Thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the socialist running for president, we are learning that one of the latest examples of victim groups is students, who freely decide to go to college and in many…