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Yesterday afternoon, the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Policy, chaired by Senator Elizabeth Warren, held a hearing with the explicit goal of holding MOHELA to account. For what, you might ask?
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Biden has transformed the federal direct loan program into a giant drain on the US Treasury. His repeated efforts to undermine the program are leading many moderate voices to a sad conclusion; that maybe it's time to scrap the whole system and start from scratch.
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Last night, progressive television pundit Rachel Maddow took advantage of the public's being uninformed on the issue of student debt to spread misinformation, aimed at scoring partisan points and defending Biden's indefensible vote-buying scheme by disguising it as compassionate policy.
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The federal student loan program has gone off the rails. Biden's reforms to the student loan repayment program (absent an intervention from the Supreme Court) will make it such that borrowers seldom pay back all of what they borrow.
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It's hard to overstate the damage that the SAVE Plan would do to the system of higher education finance if it is allowed to move forward.
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The federal student loan program will either stumble along in its dilapidated state, bleeding resources from the US Treasury that could be better spent elsewhere, or it'll be shut down and put out of its misery by enterprising, fiscally concerned lawmakers.
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In 2020, a welcome piece of legislation took an overdue step to simplify the FAFSA to make it easier, especially for economically disadvantaged students, to apply for student aid. The legislation tasked the Biden Administration with implementing this fix and, unfortunately, they've royally botched it.
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The delayed implementation of the simplified FAFSA highlights a critical issue: the challenge of bureaucratic efficiency in executing educational reforms. It underscores the urgent need for effective management and prioritization in government agencies to ensure timely and beneficial outcomes for students and families.
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Lately, it's been Republican lawmakers who have been offering up comprehensive reform for higher education policy, but this week House Democrats got back in the game. Today, they released new legislation outlining their vision for higher education reform beyond the administration-led student loan cancellation agenda.
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House Republicans released a new legislative package today. The College Cost Reduction Act represents the largest serious and comprehensive higher education reform package in decades and, in theory, has plenty of bipartisan appeal.
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2023 was a huge year for higher education policy.  What was once a sleepy, niche policy issue followed mostly by wonks like myself made headlines week after week, largely thanks to President Biden's misguided and illegal efforts to cancel student loans. So, for those of you who aren't higher education nerds like myself, here's my […]
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Women are now dominant in American higher education. In the fall of 2020, women made up nearly 60% of all postsecondary enrollment. And on average, they out-achieve men by a wide margin. Men's average undergraduate GPAs lag 15% behind women's. Add to that that men are less likely to finish their degree once they've started […]
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Our system of graduate student lending is failing students and taxpayers alike. Higher education thinkers from across the spectrum have come together to say: It's time to reform graduate student lending.
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Last week, the Urban Institute published a new report examining, in detail, the implications of President Biden's latest scheme to forgive as much student debt as possible before the next election cycle: the SAVE repayment plan.
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For a long time, advocates and policymakers in the higher education space were fixated on improving "access" to higher education. "Value" should be the new buzzword in higher education.
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