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May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
…the Ball on FAFSA Beth Akers | AEIdeas | February 14, 2024 Biden Administration Continues to Fumble the New Financial Aid Application Beth Akers | AEIdeas | January 31, 2024…
May 9, 2024
The Federal Student Loan Program Is Unraveling
…promising loan cancellation. Lawmakers could use those savings for deficit reduction, or to expand financial aid for truly needy students. But lawmakers who want to pursue privatization must avoid several…
May 1, 2024
Getting Higher Education Right
…p.m. Panel Discussion Panelists: Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Wayne D. Lewis Jr., President, Houghton University Michael Q. McShane, Adjunct Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Andy Smarick, Senior Fellow,…
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 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…
April 1, 2024
How Private Student Lending Can Repair Higher Education
…with unsecured lending and a hostile regulatory environment. Federal student loans to graduate students and parents are the best candidates for privatization. Policymakers could use a portion of the savings…
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…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…models and the active encouragement of parents and friends who have degrees. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, a professor of urban planning at the University of Southern California and a native of rural…