The Burning Higher-Ed Issue — Cancel Student Debts?
Such an executive order is highly questionable and it would be extremely bad policy.
Student Loans
Student-Debt Relief Is a Bad Way to Stimulate the Economy
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has a great breakdown of why this is so.
Don’t Forgive Student Debt
The Left has intensified its calls for Joe Biden to forgive student debt via executive order.
Federal Student-Loan Cancellation Is Bad Policy
A student-debt cancellation is a bald handout to the affluent.
Forgiving Student Debt Is (Still) a Dumb Idea
Bad policy, bad law, bad politics.
Federal Student Aid Was a Bad Idea
Federal student aid is the cause of the upward ratcheting of credential inflation we have had over the last 40-plus years.
Good College Debt and Bad College Debt
We really should get the federal government completely out of college finance, but until such time, Cooper's reforms are good ones.
The Pappy van Winkle Effect
Young people who are worried about student debt should . . . study a lot harder.
More Evidence That We’ve Oversold College
Lots of young people spend years of their lives and plenty of often borrowed money to earn degrees that don't lead to financial success.
Watch: Kat Timpf Criticizes Bernie Sanders’s Approach to Student-Loan Debt
Kat Timpf criticizes Senator Bernie Sanders's response to a student after she asked how he would pay for her student loan debt at a recent CNN town hall.