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June 27, 2024
New Legal Roadblocks for Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Crusade
…scheduled to begin on the first of July. The court decisions were the first step in a legal process that may ultimately end up at the Supreme Court. The nation’s…
May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
Event Summary On May 9, AEI hosted a panel conversation with AEI’s Beth Akers and Michael Brickman, Karen McCarthy of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and Mark…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…of them. But one thing most people agree is that this is a big problem, for higher education and for our nation. Fortunately, most people are wrong on this one….
October 26, 2023
New Report Sheds Light on Expansive Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme
…more forceful accountability measures, this ill-conceived policy will only exacerbate the existing challenges in higher education finance that have brought the issue to the forefront of our national political discourse….
October 17, 2023
Measuring Value in Higher Education
Event Description As Republicans and Democrats on the Hill and in state legislatures nationwide seek to address the rising debt burden facing college graduates, new focus has been placed on…
September 18, 2023
A Degree of Risk
…what they have borrowed, if anything at all. As my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Nat Malkus, has argued, Biden’s IDR reforms would ostensibly transform a loan repayment program into…
September 18, 2023
Biden’s Latest Student-Loan Plan Is Another Disaster
Late last month, President Biden and his Department of Education announced the launch of the “SAVE” Plan, a reform that expands existing income-driven repayment (IDR) programs to the tune of up to $550 billion. Now,…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…will need in the coming election cycles to maintain any power in national politics. The fairness and the naked political ambition behind the plan are reason enough to object to…