I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. America’s higher education system faces a structural ...

Student loan borrowers are facing a future of higher monthly payments after the court-ordered end of a Biden-era student loan repayment plan.

'I just keep hoping that it will just magically go away or I'll just die': A growing feature of the nation's $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis is Americans living with student loans for their entire ...

Lending Tree, an online lender, reported last week that nearly half of U.S. households that used “buy now, pay later”—loans offered at online store checkouts by companies like Affirm and Klarna—had ...

Picture the scene: your daughter, your neighbor, your niece; 18 years old; the first in her family to go to college. The financial aid office has given her 20 minutes and a stack of paper. She signs ...

The Trump Administration will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers whose current debt is in default, the Department of Education has announced. Beginning on Jan. 7, the department will ...

Student debt is often treated as a problem for young adults just starting out. In the South, it is increasingly something else: a multigenerational economic strain colliding with a region that ...

We have been told the student debt crisis is a financing problem. With total student loan debt approaching $1.8 trillion, Washington’s answer has been loan forgiveness: a feel-good, socialist Band-Aid ...

In Germany, riding the subway without buying a ticket is called schwarzfahren—quite literally “riding in the dark.” While it saves you money on the ticket, you’re always riding the train with a ...

Great news: After graduation, you’ll have no more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks, but it comes with one heck of a price tag all over the United States. In other words, student ...