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Employers helped pay off student loans for 4% of workers — and the ones who make the most money were most likely to see relief
If you want your employer to pay off or help relieve your student loan debt, you probably want to b…
Juliana Kaplan
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Dave Ramsey says student loans are 'horrible and evil' and 'we should stop making them' — but he doesn't believe in forgiving debt
"It's intellectually dishonest for politicians to run around talking about forgiving student loans …
Ayelet Sheffey,Jason Lalljee
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Meet a 34-year-old with $250,000 in student debt after 13 years of barely keeping up with her monthly interest payments: 'I never felt like I could get a handle on it'
Janell Tryon didn't know the interest on her student loans would stack up so quickly. She now owes …
Jason Lalljee
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Only 32 student loan borrowers - ever - have qualified for full forgiveness through an income-driven repayment plan
Federal repayment programs were first introduced over two decades ago, but only 32 student loan bor…
Lauren Frias
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AOC swings at the White House for weighing only $10,000 in student debt relief: 'We can do better'
Ocasio-Cortez said the meager student loan relief amount risks backfiring on Biden by angering just…
Juliana Kaplan,Ayelet Sheffey…
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16,000 more student loan borrowers will get $415 million in debt forgiveness. The Biden administration says that's $2 billion of debt relieved so far.
The Department of Education said that 1,800 former students at DeVry University will see nearly $72…
Juliana Kaplan
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Biden's White House fears canceling student debt will drive inflation even higher and that restarting loan payments might help avoid that
Biden is set to soon make a decision on broad student-loan forgiveness. Some economists fear the mo…
Ayelet Sheffey,Ben Winck
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206 people sent Insider letters addressed to the President about student loan forgiveness. Here are 9 of our favorite.
Buying a home, saving for retirement, living a debt-free life. Readers wrote letters to President B…
Kristie-Valerie Hoang,Lauren …
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A quarter of Americans support forgiving all federal student-loan debt
President Joe Biden has thrown his support behind $10,000 in student loan forgiveness. But a quarte…
Juliana Kaplan
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NAACP president slams Biden's plan to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt: It's 'like pouring a bucket of ice water on a forest fire'
Derrick Johnson has previously urged Biden to forgive at least $50,000 in loans per borrower, sayin…
Ayelet Sheffey,Jason Lalljee
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Freezing student-loan payments saved just $2,000 per borrower, report finds
Nationwide, borrowers saved $82.7 billion in interest payments from the student-loan freeze, but Up…
Ayelet Sheffey
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2.6 million student-loan borrowers could get rid of their debt by declaring bankruptcy — but major companies are blocking that
The Student Borrower Protection Center found private creditors have "systematically lied to borrowe…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Meet a medical school graduate with over $360,000 in student loans and says $10,000 forgiveness wouldn't make a difference for people in his position
"The $10,000 for everyone would not really help me all that much when I'm looking at $360,000," Jos…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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The case for cancelling student debt isn't political - it's practical. Here are the benefits of erasing $1.6 trillion, no strings attached.
President Biden rejected a Democratic plan to eliminate $50,000 of student debt per borrower, but s…
Hillary Hoffower,Madison Hoff
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$50 billion of student debt could be entitled to automatic cancellation in bankruptcy but borrowers may not know about it
The report by the Student Borrower Protection Center is the first estimate of how much private stud…
Cezary Podkul
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36 civil rights organizations urge Biden to cancel $50,000 in student debt per borrower
The NAACP, ACLU, and other civil rights organizations said the student debt burden disproportionate…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Student-loan companies aren't prepared to restart payments in October, which could be a 'financial catastrophe' for borrowers, senators say
Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey urged an extension of a student-loan payment pause through at least …
Ayelet Sheffey
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Biden has signaled he may be open to forgiving some federal student-loan debt, lawmakers say
Some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus described a meeting in which President Joe Biden …