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November 20, 2024
Eliminate Federal Lending to Graduate and Professional Students; Revenue to Fund Block Grants to States
…making accommodations for the second-order effects of the proposed policy changes. The proposed policy changes will follow the format for a policy solution that was outlined in a previously coauthored…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…inequality, and the need to promote economically diverse neighborhoods through housing reform. The second panel discussed family policy and the safety net. AEI’s Brad Wilcox argued that marriage matters today…
August 29, 2024
It’s Time for Radical Reform in Higher Education
…also emboldening the thousands of colleges and universities that participate in these programs, enabling them to inflate their prices to match. As students come to realize they may not have to pay…
April 9, 2024
Biden Knows Student Loan Cancellation Is a Bad Idea
…It seems that this administration is more interested in scoring political points than enacting good policy. The math is simple: 30 million Americans with lower or completely forgiven student loan…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…commuting distance of a college or university, unfortunately. But this matters less today than ever before, with online education providing more and higher quality options. A community without a brick-and-mortar…
October 17, 2023
Measuring Value in Higher Education
…institutions and degree programs according to their graduates’ likely economic outcomes. During the event, participants will hear from economists, policy experts, and practitioners who will provide insight into the math…
October 2, 2023
Shopping for Colleges Just Got a Little Easier for Some Students
…standard language and format for financial aid award letters. And while “more government intervention” seldom seems to be the answer in higher education policy these days, in this case it’s…
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…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…the potential to make matters much worse. If future students anticipate this is just the first of many loan-cancellation events, they may be willing to pay and borrow more to…