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There are plenty of reasons to get angry about President Biden’s Executive Order to transfer about $300 billion in student loan debt to taxpayers. A few of the major themes highlighted in recent commentary include:
Published: Sunday, September 4th, 2022 @ 2:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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“Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe called out President Joe Biden’s student debt cancellation plan, saying it’s the “biggest pre-Labor Day slap in the face” to working people he’s ever seen.
Published: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022 @ 2:35 am
By: Daily Wire
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The White House has lashed out at Congressional Republicans who criticized the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness plan.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 4:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Knick-knack wealth redistribution is back!
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 2:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Wednesday, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) reportedly fought privately regarding President Biden’s social spending plan, with Manchin indicating how the amount of funding he was comfortable with: zero.
Published: Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 @ 3:23 am
By: Daily Wire
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Conservative icon Mike Rowe explained in a social media post this week why he does not support student loan forgiveness, noting that it is profoundly unfair to those who worked hard and paid off their debts and that it is welfare for the wealthy.
Published: Sunday, December 20th, 2020 @ 10:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Governor Roy Cooper declared today, April 1, 2020, as National Census Day, to encourage all North Carolinians to participate in the census and be counted.
Published: Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 @ 8:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I first met Elizabeth Warren when she was a professor at Harvard Law School in 2004. She was fresh off the publication of her bestselling book, "The Two-Income Trap."
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2019 @ 11:14 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Some education items in the Senate budget will remain, House leaders say
Published: Wednesday, May 17th, 2017 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was a bad idea for the federal government ever to get into the business of financing college with its various grants and loans, but at least in the old days, most of the money loaned was eventually repaid
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 2:10 am
By: John William Pope Center
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American college students have taken to saying that they need "safe spaces" on campus. They really don't, since all they're after is "safety" from ideas they dislike
Published: Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 10:02 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Last month I looked at Hillary Clinton’s higher education proposals in this Clarion Call, and found nothing to praise in them. They merely deepen the already ruinous federal involvement in subsidizing college.
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2016 @ 11:13 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Seemingly, nothing now stands between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic nomination, so it's worth looking anew at her proposals regarding higher education
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 @ 9:58 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Today success requires possessing a skill set that is in demand.
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 2:55 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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For all of the words devoted to our student loan mess (or "crisis" or "bubble"), little has been written on its origins. We know that student loan debt now exceeds $1 trillion and that many young Americans are struggling with a heavy burden, but how things got that way is largely a mystery.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 11:15 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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There is a forgotten group of college students. These are the students who start out at a community college, leave it to earn a bachelor's degree, but drop out along the way.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In his 1955 paper "The Role of Government in Education," Milton Friedman suggested the idea of equity contracts to finance college education. Friedman thought that loans were not the appropriate means of financing education. He argued that the better way was to advance the needed funds for...
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 8:21 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Students are defaulting on their college loans at worryingly high rates. Many observers of higher education believe that one reason for the defaults is that those most...
Published: Thursday, August 8th, 2013 @ 3:14 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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I saw a commercial on TV the other morning that nearly made me spew my Cheerios. Some vaguely-named council or coalition was running an ad praising US Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) for the following: "Creating Jobs", "Making college affordable".
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Hardly a day goes by without the publication of articles on the plight of recent college graduates. Large numbers are either unemployed or employed in jobs that don't call for any academic preparation. Many are struggling with the burden of their college loans.
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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