New Orleans After much sound and fury the Obama Administration seems to have slipped Professor Elizabeth Warren in through the side door of the White House to setup the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s all confusing since the Bureau is squeezed between the Federal Reserve and Treasury Departments, and Warren herself has been snuck …
Tag: student loans
Demand Affordability for Student Loans
New Orleans Congress is debating real limits on the amount of student aid that they will cover on for-profit colleges, since finally they have the memo that too many for-profits are fleecing the students and they are paying the bill both on the front end with $20 billion in student loans and on the back …
Campaign to reduce student loan debt
New Orleans When I was in Columbus, Ohio a couple of weeks ago, I was stunned when an organizing colleague, Barbara Clark, told me that 75% of the 300 or so tax returns she had helped do at a VITA site at the Neighborhood House had student loan debts that were severe enough in some …