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May 29, 2024
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…
April 29, 2024
New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud
…blocks, policymakers can’t know if state UI systems are prepared for future shocks—and whether providing expanding federal assistance will, as lawmakers intend, reach citizens in need or instead be siphoned…
April 26, 2024
Washington, District of Benefit Cliffs
As the welfare state expands while policymakers struggle to contain its costs, one unintended result is the creation of significant benefit cliffs. A little-noticed September 2023 report authored by Elias Ilin and Alvaro Sanchez…
April 17, 2024
Fiscal Sanity Please, Senators
…over $34 trillion. Our debt to GDP ratio is over 97% and could hit unsustainable levels far sooner than official estimates think. Passing Wyden-Smith with an expanded RECA only compounds these problems. Federal policymakers…
April 10, 2024
Biden Irresponsibly Encourages Borrowers to Enroll in SAVE Plan
…millions of students expecting loan forgiveness high and dry. As Beth wrote last year, “Biden and his progressive allies promised loan forgiveness that almost every legal expert knew would be stopped cold…
April 9, 2024
Maddow Spreads Misinformation on Student Loan Cancellation
…lawmakers like President Biden let them off the hook to repay them. Blaming banks is a common refrain for Democrats, but it’s completely ignorant to do so in the case…
April 9, 2024
Biden Knows Student Loan Cancellation Is a Bad Idea
This morning, President Biden announced new details about the latest effort to cancel student debt that he says will reduce balances or completely cancel student debt for over 30 million Americans. First,…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…to that goal may be a bumpy ride. But he also suggests that the solid pace of economic growth gives policymakers flexibility to respond as new data come in. As…
April 3, 2024
Feds Should Take a Big Step Back on Student Loans
…to the game in reaching this conclusion. After all, the economic integrity of the student loan program has been under attack for over a decade, especially as lawmakers used income…
March 28, 2024
Federal Student Lending is Beyond Repair
…to erode the economic integrity of the entire federal student loan program. For decades, much of the public and many lawmakers have had gripes with federal student lending and have…