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Student Loan Policy Uncertainty Has Real Costs
To put it mildly, opinions varied on whether the Biden administration’s student loan policies—namely its repeated extensions of the COVID-era payment moratorium and attempt at mass loan forgiveness—were good ideas….
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Capping Student Loan Interest Would Cost Billions, Help Well-off Borrowers
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced on Wednesday that she would file a discharge petition on her proposal, cosponsored with Representatives Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), to lock the federal student…
Op-Ed
Daddy Issues: Review of “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives”
…the testicles. In hunter-gatherer communities, she writes, “members must work cooperatively, since women’s hunting and foraging adds essential calories to the family diet.” As a result, men are more likely…
Op-Ed
Albany Acts to Rescue Kids from Deadly Abuse—10 Years Too Late
…because victims failed to cooperate. The language of Kyra’s Law will seem like plain common sense to any ordinary New Yorker. The law instructs judges to consider “any party’s history…
Op-Ed
New Mexico’s Attorney General Is Suing His State’s Broken Child-Welfare Agency
…what New Mexico’s Department of Justice describes as CYFD’s “lack of cooperation” in the investigation, as well as the agency’s overall lack of transparency. Officials appear to be trying to…
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States Should Consider Earnings Outcomes for Workforce Pell Programs
Workforce Pell Grants are coming this year, helping to level the playing field between traditional degree programs and workforce education. Starting on July 1, workforce programs between eight and 15…
Op-Ed
New York City’s Surge in Family Violence
…prosecuted by the district attorney’s office because victims declined to cooperate with prosecutors.” That doesn’t begin to get at the problem of activists suggesting we should “decriminalize domestic violence” because it furthers…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
…they will, like welfare recipients, make changes that enable them to either manage in the private market on their own, cooperate with extended family, or relocate to more affordable locales….
Op-Ed
The Big Beautiful Fix for Graduate School Borrowing
…Preston Cooper, illustrated that graduate degree programs often yield a poor return on investment. His estimates indicate that as many as 40 percent of existing graduate programs leave students worse off financially…
Op-Ed
NY State Courts Are Blocking Children’s Services in Domestic Violence Cases—and That Needs to Change
…in The Bronx over the first three months of 2025 were not prosecuted by the district attorney’s office because victims declined to cooperate with prosecutors.” And those were the ones…
Op-Ed
Revise the Messenger
…acting secretary of the Department of Labor appears not to have been sufficiently cooperative with House oversight of BLS, and it’s not clear that McEntarfer herself responded to a similar inquiry from Senators Bill…
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An Analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Effect on Student Loans
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