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Trina Pau Associate Reporter When the Biden administration announced its student loan forgiveness plan in August, it was an unprecedented move to help alleviate the $1.6 trillion worth of debt that borrowers hold. However, the forgiveness plan now faces multiple legal challenges and leaves borrowers wondering what will happen next. In the past two months, student loan forgiveness…
By —Collin Binkley, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ordering changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that would disqualify workers of nonprofit groups deemed to have engaged in “improper” activities. An executive order signed Friday directs the Education Department to modify the program to deny loan relief to some borrowers. It would…
Tobi Opeyemi Amure May 5, 2026 For decades, the math on graduate school in America worked something like this. You borrowed what you needed, finished the degree, and out-earned the debt over a long career. Washington made that bet possible. The federal government would lend you whatever the school charged, with no credit check, no…
By Richard Fry and Anthony Cilluffo Americans owe about $1.6 trillion in student loans as of June 2024 – 42% more than what they owed a decade earlier. The increase has come as greater shares of young U.S. adults go to college and as the cost of higher education increases. Here are five facts about student loans in America…
