Despite polling showing student loan cancellation to be popular, even among those who don’t hold such debt themselves, Biden is unlikely to cancel all student debt outright.
Read more...Biden is signaling he might retreat on resuming student debt payments. But is this simply a ploy in light of the BBB brick wall?
Read more...More discussion of anger in the social and political contexts.
Read more...Why are so many young men giving up on college?
Read more...Columbia stands out in what a bad deal its graduate arts programs are. And President Bollinger is either clueless or indifferent.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a hard look at the typical excuses for not cancelling student debt and finds them wanting.
Read more...Why the student loan mess is even worse than you thought.
Read more...More on how neoliberalism has been digging a grave for universities.
Read more...Biden could resort to a simple bankruptcy fix for the student loan mess. But would he?
Read more...It’s odd to see Democrats talking about a Biden “100 days” when Obama did nothing like that when he actually did have a mandate to do so that he ignored. Did they not get the memo that their blue wave didn’t hit the beach? It’s even odder to see Chuck Schumer affecting a Damascene conversion, […]
Read more...Households and businesses are overloaded with debt. Richard Vague offers a set of proposals for how to restructure it.
Read more...Colleges and universities need to be saved, not only from financial ruin, but also, all too often, from themselves.
Read more...Trump backs down on plan too toss out foreign students who are forced to study on-line, as many universities circumscribe in-person classes,
Read more...Universities face an anxious and meager school year.
Read more...US universities are facing a world of hurt.
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