Monday, August 24, 2026

Tag: student loan

Biden announces another round of student loan forgiveness

More than 150,000 people will qualify for another round of federal loan forgiveness the Biden administration announced on Monday. Roughly $4.2 billion...

Your employer can now match your student loan repayments as 401(k)...

When someone makes a student loan payment, their employer can contribute that same amount of money to the employee’s retirement plan under Section 110 of a federal law known as the SECURE Act 2.0.

How students jump started a bold new campaign for debt abolition 

In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action.

Court bars Biden’s student debt relief program leaving program in legal...

The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruling came after six states claimed that the debt relief plan "threatens their future tax revenues and circumvents congressional authority."

We can do so much more on student loan forgiveness

The administration still has time to take real action on student loan debt, but they need to get moving.

A new low’: Betsy DeVos sued for garnishing wages of nearly...

"By continuing to use its harsh collection tools during this public health and economic crisis, the Department of Education is placing the health, safety, and well-being of vulnerable student loan borrowers in peril."

Warren urges DeVos to collect $22.3M owed by student loan company...

“For years since this scam was revealed, Navient has continued to engage in predatory, improper, and illegal behavior.”

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The west front of the United States Capitol. Photo: Architect of the Capitol, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The single, greatest MAGA Trump threat: Constitutional nullification

The horror of MAGA Trumpism is both the speed and ease by which corruption reigns PLUS the dearth of popular resistance.
A group running together in a park. Photo: David Hawgood / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The physical activity paradox: not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk –...

Pooling 74 studies of more than 4.2 million people in 30 countries, researchers found leisure exercise cut dementia risk while active commuting was linked to a 10 percent higher risk.
Command Sgt. Maj. John Sparks delivers copies of Stars and Stripes to U.S. Marines from Weapons Platoon, 3-2 India Company, on April 4, 2003. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps photo by 1st Sgt. David K. Dismukes (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pentagon fires three at Stars and Stripes, seven months after taking the paper’s rules...

The regulation governing the newspaper was struck from the books in January and its terms moved into a Defense Department directive. Three senators have asked Hegseth for answers by August 28.
Abdul El-Sayed talking with voters at a campaign meet-and-greet

“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice

The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.
The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, where Judge Indira Talwani sits. Photo: Scott LaPierre / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Postal Service issued its mail ballot rule on Friday night while a court...

Judge Indira Talwani has given the government until 8 a.m. Tuesday to respond, or take a restraining order that stops the rule reaching the Federal Register on Wednesday.