Student Loan Debt and the Supreme Court
Past Present Podcast, Episode 365
We discuss the SCOTUS deliberation over the cancellation of student loan debt....
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Biden Must Not Bail on Four Million Older Americans
The President is quietly betraying a generation of indebted students
The fact that representatives referred only to “students” and “young people” suggests that they didn’t yet know it is older Americans who are being abruptly left behind. We were never warned that we could soon be treated as “a separate and unequal class.”...
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An Ethics of Refusal
Beyond “The Great Resignation”
In the United States, we live in a country where someone who works for a law firm that services Big Oil is by and large considered intelligent and successful, maybe even ethical due to their pro bono representation, no matter that such a firm, for instance, did not represent foreclosure ...
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The Best Student Debt Forgiveness? Discharge Loans Already Paid
But to do that, the Department of Education would have to release its data
Today, in some states you can even lose your driver’s license due to unpaid student debt. Senior citizens on Social Security can have their monthly checks garnished by student loan debt collectors without a court order, an authority that is unique. Other borrowers have had wages, alimony, or IRS tax ...
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Student Loans: The Origins of a Racket
The road to student loan hell was paved with good intentions
"Education can lift people and propel the country’s economy, but it can’t do that if it leaves many of its beneficiaries weighed down by life-altering amounts of debt." - Devon Lindey ...
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Save Higher Education (From Itself)!
A federal bailout for students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities
More than three months into a national emergency, neither the leaders of America’s colleges and universities nor our elected officials have offered any plan to uphold higher education or any vision for its future. The ad-hoc responses of individual institutions do not suffice. Without federal relief and concerted reform, our ...
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Student Loans, Fur Bans, and TWA
Past Present Episode 181
In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss billionaire Robert F. Smith’s historic gift to the Morehouse College class of 2019, a proposed fur ban in New York City, and the opening of a chic new hotel in the TWA terminal.
Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s ...
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