student debt

Nearly 4 million Texans will have to make student loan payments again as a three-year COVID-era pause on payments and interest accrual comes to an end next. A financial aid administrator from UT Arlington breaks down what that means for borrowers.

A U.S. Department of Education review identified 804,000 borrowers across the country with loans taken more than two decades ago and whose debts should have been canceled but were not because of “administrative failures.”

The cancellation of up to $20,000 of debt would have benefited millions of Texans.

The leaders of the state’s six biggest university systems are seeking the money to fund instruction, university operations and employee health insurance and to cover a free tuition program for veterans and their children.

The lawsuit filed by the Republican attorneys general of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and South Carolina argues Congress never approved massive student loan cancellation. It asserts that the Biden administration and the U.S. Education Department aim to misuse emergency authority.

The governor joined 21 other Republicans in denouncing the president’s plan as harming Americans who didn’t go to college.

I’m Joseph Lichterman from Baltimore, Maryland.Educated is as good — if not better — than everyone says. Author Tara Westover writes about her childhood,…