student debt

March 7, 2023

Supreme Debt Consideration: Will Biden’s Student Debt Cancellation Get Passing Grade?

Joe Selvaggi talks with constitutional scholar Ilya Somin about the merits and likely success of the two Supreme Court cases Nebraska v. Biden and Department of Education v. Brown, which challenge the President’s constitutional right to cancel more than $400 billion in student debt.
July 12, 2016

The New Game of Life: Tuition and Debt

Back in 2005, the Milton Bradley Company launched a new version of the classic The Game of Life.  While similar in most respects to the game most of us grew up with, the updated version reflects today’s financial realities. Namely, you can...
October 21, 2015

5 Reasons Students will Love the New Higher Ed Bill

Expanding scholarships, savings incentives, refinancing loans, collaboration efforts, and finding a new funding formula are all a great start, but could more be done? Tuition and fees at UMass have gone way up, average student debt for UMass Amherst graduates has hit...
August 12, 2015

Problem: Overpriced Textbooks, Solution: Opensource Material

Last week, NBC news announced that textbooks prices have risen 1,041% since 1977, three times the rate of inflation according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As if tuition costs weren’t already exorbitant. For the 2014-2015 academic year, the average private four-year...