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‘Broken and unfair’: Morrison-era policy slogging students with hundreds of millions in extra debt
'We are talking about students carrying a significant debt into their late 40s, and many will never repay it.' The post ‘Broken and unfair’: Morrison-era policy slogging students with hundreds of millions in extra debt appeared first on Crikey.
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Legal Insurrection
· Jul 2, 2026
Massachusetts Colleges to Try Three-Year Degree Programs as Schools Struggle With Enrollment
“There’s a whole generation that has listened to their parents complain about their student debt, and they’re about to go off to college, and they’re not really interested in taking on a lifetime of student debt” The post Massachusetts Colleges to Try Three-Year Degree Programs as Schools Struggle With Enrollment first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion.
Korea Times News
· Jun 30, 2026
College debt
College debt
Off The Press
· Jul 10, 2026
Taxpayers bearing burden of $1.8T in federal student loans
An almost 1.8 trillion student loan portfolio continues to keep taxpayers on the hook. That’s the picture as the federal government scales back broad student loan forgiveness and implements new repayment programs. The policy changes have renewed debate over whether Washington, D.C should continue serving as one of the nation’s largest banks for student lenders []...Click to read more
The Daily Signal
· Jun 23, 2026
Education Department Announces New Measure to Encourage Student Loan Repayment
America doesn’t just have a student debt problem—it has an accountability problem. If policymakers want an affordable higher education system, they must stop cycles of debt accumulation and forgiveness and require students to pay back the money they borrowed. Last week, the Department of Education announced a temporary 1 student loan interest rate reduction for...
UPI
· Jun 24, 2026
Student loan borrowers confused as SAVE plan end looms
Student loan borrowers confused as SAVE plan end looms
Wirepoints
· Jul 1, 2026
Column: Teacher pension problems continue to get bigger – Champaign News-Gazette
“When you hear framings like ‘schools are underfunded’ or ‘schools are overfunded,’ usually those are missing the point. It’s that a growing share of what we already spend never reaches students, and until that problem is directly confronted, even the largest tax increases will struggle to deliver on their stated promises,” write Joshua Rauh and Gregory Kearney of Stanford’s Hoover Institute.
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Related coverage for "‘Broken and unfair’: Morrison-era policy slogging students with hundreds of millions in extra debt": Legal Insurrection — Massachusetts Colleges to Try Three-Year Degree Programs as Schools Struggle With Enrollment. Korea Times News — College debt. Off The Press — Taxpayers bearing burden of $1.8T in federal student loans. The Daily Signal — Education Department Announces New Measure to Encourage Student Loan Repayment. UPI — Student loan borrowers confused as SAVE plan end looms. Wirepoints — Column: Teacher pension problems continue to get bigger – Champaign News-Gazette