She Accused Her Ex-Husband of Abuse. She’s Still Stuck With His Student Loans.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.When Michelle and her husband divorced, a judge separated their assets. She got the televisions. He got the gas grill and the freezer. Most of their debts were divided and, in many cases,…
The US Government Pushed Hundreds of Married Couples Into Disastrous Student Loans
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When the Biden administration made it easier last year for Americans doing public service work to have their student loans forgiven, thousands of borrowers saw their debts reduced or eliminated altogether. But some…
Biden Promised Student Debt Relief for Public Service Workers. The Reality Has Been Painful.
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Joann is a single mother who has been a nurse since 2010. Throughout that time, she had accumulated nearly $140,000 in student loans and paid about $700 each month. The prospect of paying…
Marco Rubio Will Defer Your Student Loans, but Only If You Survive a Terrorist Attack
Michael Brochstein/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Who needs student loan forgiveness when you can have your payments deferred for one year, with no decrease in total debt, so long as you’ve survived a terrorist attack?…
Joe Biden Has Publicly Trashed Student Debt Forgiveness. But Behind the Scenes, He’s Made Democrats Hopeful.
Michael Brochstein/Sipa via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.By the end of last week, things weren’t looking promising for student loan borrowers hopeful President Biden would cancel large swaths of their debts. First, there…
US Student Debt Just Hit a Mind-Bending Milestone—So We Made This Animation
One point seven trillion. That’s the amount of outstanding student debt in the United States—for now. But don’t blink: That number is ballooning even as you read this sentence. Since the Great Recession took hold in 2008, student debt has been among the fastest-growing types of debt for everyday Americans. It’s growing faster than mortgages,…