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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

"'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
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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.

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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…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/394704/

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.

"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/

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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

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Here’s How You Can Challenge Wage Garnishment for Defaulted Student Loans

The Trump administration announced that this week it will start forcibly collecting money from student loan debtors.

https://murica.website/2026/01/heres-how-you-can-challenge-wage-garnishment-for-defaulted-student-loans/

Here’s How You Can Challenge Wage Garnishment for Defaulted Student Loans – The USA Potato

Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults

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Trump Admin to Begin Garnishing Wages for Defaulted Student Loans in January

Wages could be garnished as early as 30 days after borrowers receive notice.

https://murica.website/2025/12/trump-admin-to-begin-garnishing-wages-for-defaulted-student-loans-in-january/

Trump Admin to Begin Garnishing Wages for Defaulted Student Loans in January – The USA Potato

New student loan rule could dissuade people from advanced nursing degrees • Ohio Capital Journal

Zoe Clarke became a hospital registered nurse two and a half years ago, following in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother. Clarke, an ICU nurse in Asheville, North Carolina, wants to get her master’s degree to become a nurse practitioner or a certified registered nurse anesthetist — occupations in high demand — and eventually work […]

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