In January, the Department of Education unveiled details of a repayment plan overhaul that could halve monthly payments for many federal student loan borrowers. But one group, the 3.7 million parents who owe parent PLUS loans, won’t benefit. Policymakers have long excluded parent PLUS loans from most relief, though the program looks much different today than it did during its 1980 debut.
While parent PLUS loans were initially intended as a tool for well-off families, says Robert Kelchen, a hig
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A new analysis shows that the U.S.’s largest professional organization of ob-gyns has spent a considerable amount of money in the last decade helping anti-abortion legislators get elected to Congress. From 2012 to 2022, of the 294 federal legislators who received campaign donations via the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ (ACOG) political action committee, 39.5% have actively worked to constrain abortion access in the country. Of those donation recipients, 70 explicitl
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This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For years, consultants paid to help colleges draw more applicants urged premium amenities, posh student centers, and professional-grade athletic complexes. But, in the current environment, an unlikely selling point has quietly emerged: access to abortion rights. In a new tranche of research released Thursday from Gallup and the Lumina Foundation, almost three-qu
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When I was applying for colleges, I was only interested in a few elite options, and I didn't think about the cost. My mom tried to get me to consider anything to reduce the cost, but I didn't take her seriously. I'm nearly 34 now, and I'm still paying off the massive student loan
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But statistics is a cruel science, and Gompertz knew that too. According to his data, the risk of dying at age 92 was so high that you would need an unthinkably large number of humans to reach that age before you found just one person who lived to 192. Three trillion humans, to be precise—30 times more than have ever been born. And yet Gompertz found himself hampered by his dataset. So few humans made it past the age of 90 that it was hard for him to really know what mortality rates were l
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Image source, Image 1 Photography A 16-year-old student in the US state of Louisiana has received university scholarship offers totalling more than $9m (£7.2m). Dennis Barnes, who is in his final year at the International High School of New Orleans, applied last August to 200 colleges across the country. He has so far been accepted at 125 schools and is hoping for more offers before he decides where to enrol. The scholarship offers could see Mr Barnes set a new nati
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Zena Dodson, a borrower with $78,000 in student debt, just got her loans discharged via bankruptcy. She had been paying off her loans for three decades with no improvement to her financial situation. The relief follows new Education and Justice Department reforms to the bankruptcy process last year. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. A student-loan borrower who has been burde
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Bed Bath Beyond, the embattled homeware retailer, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. Ryan Cohen and Jake Freeman raked in about $180 million in profits on the meme stock between them. BBBY stock has plummeted from a high of $30 last August to 30 cents as of Friday's close. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Ryan Cohen and Jake Freeman have been cemented as rare winners from th
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Eva Keller is a travel blogger and former Disneyland and Disney World employee. Keller participated in the Disney College program four times, working at the parks as a student. "If you're there to make friends, that's easy," Keller said. "If you're there for work, there's so much opportunity." Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with
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