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43 Million Americans Have Some College But No Degree — Here’s Why They Left
A new Trellis Strategies survey (PDF File) of 3,182 former students who left college without a credential finds that financial pressure and life circ…
4 months, 1 week ago
Education Department Tells Borrowers To Expect Repayment, Not Forgiveness
Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent told an American Enterprise Institute audience on Thursday that federal student loan forgiveness “is not h…
4 months, 1 week ago
Judge Approves $425M Capital One 360 Savings Settlement — Payments Expected July
A federal judge has approved a $425 million class action settlement with Capital One over allegations that the bank paid low interest rates to older …
4 months, 1 week ago
New Analysis Projects Class Of 2026 Will Borrow $43,500 For A Bachelor’s Degree
High school seniors heading to public four-year colleges this fall could graduate with more than $43,000 in student loans, according to a new NerdWal…
4 months, 1 week ago
Treasury Set To Ramp Up Defaulted Student Loan Collections In July
Hundreds of thousands of federal student loan borrowers in default could start hearing from the government and their debt collectors as soon as July,…
4 months, 1 week ago
Democratic Senators File Resolution to Block Trump PSLF Employer Restrictions
A group of Democratic senators led by Tim Kaine (D-VA), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA)…
4 months, 1 week ago
California Tops List of States With Highest Student Aid Fraud at $171 Million
The Big Number: $1 billion — that’s how much the Department of Education says it saved taxpayers by cracking down on student aid fraud over the past …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
554,000 Borrowers Still Stuck in Student Loan Repayment Backlog Despite Record Processing
The Department of Education processed more IDR applications in March than any month since court-ordered tracking began, cutting the pending backlog t…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
89,720 PSLF Buyback Applications Are Pending — But Many Borrowers Won’t Need Them
The PSLF Buyback backlog grew to 89,720 pending applications in March, according to the latest court-ordered status report (PDF File) filed today. Th…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
College Board’s Education Pays 2026 Report Confirms: A Degree Still Pays Off
College remains a strong financial investment, and the latest data from College Board makes that case with the most recent numbers available. The Edu…
4 months, 2 weeks ago