Mastodawn

How are any of us with student loans supposed to actually make ends meet to come September?

#loans #studen #students #studentloan #Debt

The Cruelty Is The Point...

As billions get spent blowing up Iran, a #federal court has kicked millions of #USA student-loan borrowers off the SAVE program, a 2023 #Biden admin initiative to help borrowers shrink their monthly #studentloan repayments.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/save-plan-for-student-loan-borrowers-is-over-federal-appeals-court-.html

Georgiann Baldino Feb 21

"'major questions doctrine,' which adherents say bars sweeping presidential action not specifically authorized by Congress. The conservative-majority court embraced the doctrine while Biden was in office to strike down broad plans, such as his effort to forgive #studentLoan debt.
"But in ruling against Trump on #tariffs Friday, the conservative majority splintered. ...Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel Alito, dissented." NBC https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tariff-case-supreme-court-justices-100000066.html
#USPolitics #SCOTUS

In tariff case, Supreme Court justices bicker over treating Trump and Biden differently

Supreme Court justices fought in their opinions in Donald Trump's tariffs case over whether they are treating Joe Biden and Trump equally.

Yahoo News

News Beep Feb 13

The true cost of the student loans debt scandal

Paying off a student loan is a Sisyphean challenge. I started university in 2016 and since then, my…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #graduates #SpecialReport #studentloan #studentloans #StudentLoansCompany #students #UK #UnitedKingdom #university
https://www.newsbeep.com/394704/

Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her)Jan 29

PSA: if you’re waiting for #studentloan #buyback or IDR plan change applications from DOE and/or your servicer, contact your US rep. Check their website for contact form, indicate you need help w/federal agency, & share your situation. Emailed-1/18, rec’d buyback agrmnt-1/28. Been waiting 9mths.

Sonya McChristie Jan 21

"Why are two-thirds of students working? Why is attendance becoming so hard to secure? Why are mental health problems rocketing? Why are more and more students choosing to live at home, restricting their subject and institution choices? Why is youth despair at record levels?"

Jim Dickinson has some answers on Wonkhe:

https://wonkhe.com/blogs/graduates-are-paying-more-and-getting-less/

#UKHE #Debt #StudentLoan

Graduates are paying more and getting less

Jim Dickinson traces how a student loans system once sold as cost-sharing has become one where graduates fund everything – and where Labour has quietly reversed promises to make things fairer Jim Dickinson traces how a student loans system once sold as cost-sharing has become one where graduates fund everything – and where Labour has quietly reversed promises to make things fairer

Wonkhe