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Federal student loan payments were paused in 2020, giving borrowers breathing room amid the pandemic. A plan to forgive $10,000 in debt may be coming.

Federal student loan payments were paused in 2020, giving borrowers breathing room amid the pandemic. A plan to forgive $10,000 in debt may be coming.

There are many principles involved in canceling all or part of the $1.4 trillion in student loan debt, not the least of which is the moral hazard in forgiving debts

The U.S. moratorium on student-loan payments is slated to be lifted at the end of August, but more than half of borrowers said in a survey that they wouldn’t be able to make a single monthly payment today if they had to.

Laurene Transue cannot think too long about her student loan debt.

Keep an eye out for these developments percolating across higher ed.

Covid has turned the gap between universities and colleges serving mainly privileged students and those serving needy ones into a chasm and it is unclear if the latter will be able to survive.

Borrowers are excluded from federal rulemaking committees for having a “conflict of interest,” while conservative-funded think tanks are cited as authorities by a credulous press.

High school juniors who believe they can’t afford higher education are about 20 percentage points less likely to attend college within the first three years after high school than peers who don’t think affordability is a barrier.

It has gotten harder to justify giving them special treatment