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Income Inequality Loves Student Loan Forgiveness Mar. 01, 2023
I'm old enough to remember when college-loan recipients expected to repay their loan balance. The wh... Read More
When Student Debt Comes Home to Roost and Fast Track Mortgage Payoff Dec. 20, 2022
Dear Mary: Several years ago I decided to become a medical transcription. I had no knowledge how sch... Read More
Loan Forgiveness With Other People's Money Sep. 28, 2022
There was a time in America, more than a decade ago, when horror stories of six-figure student debt ... Read More
Taking From the Working Class and Giving to the Laptop Class Sep. 01, 2022
If you had any doubts that those in power have dropped the pretense of fighting for the working clas... Read More
An Immoral and Terrible Public Policy Aug. 26, 2022
Most estimates suggest roughly 85% of Americans will not benefit from President Joe Biden's plan to ... Read More
Some Student Debt Relief Is Merited; Some Is Due Some Well-Deserved Scrutiny Jun. 14, 2022
Despite pressure from the Democratic Party's hard-left fringe, President Joe Biden is correctly slow... Read More
When It Cares, the US Government Is Extremely Efficient Apr. 22, 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic has made painfully clear, our health care system is a disaster; 12% of Amer... Read More
To Debt or Not to Debt? Jan. 03, 2022
DR. WALLACE: I've been accepted to a few prestigious universities that all offer my degree of choice... Read More
Struggling With Student Loans Jun. 05, 2021
Dear Annie: I met a man about four years ago. We started dating a week after we met, upon his insist... Read More
Keep It Separated Mar. 15, 2021
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 12 years. Overall, I think we have a great marria... Read More
The Pay-As-You-Go Route to Higher Education Sep. 22, 2020
Dear Mary: How can a person finance her education without taking out loans? I need to get a master's... Read More
When Parents Co-Sign Student Loans and Other Reader Dilemmas May. 14, 2020
I love days like today when I get to open the "Everyday Cheapskate" mailbag, read all the letters fr... Read More
So Far, Youth Vote Is a Flop, Again Mar. 13, 2020
Young people could change this country. They have the numbers. In 2016, Americans aged 18 to 35 were... Read More
Education Department Officials Helped Perpetuate For-Profit College Loan Scam Oct. 30, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education let almost $11 million in federal student aid go to an ineligible c... Read More
Let's Solve the Student Debt Problem Sep. 11, 2019
Today's Perspective feature, in The Gazette's recently expanded Sunday editorial section, grapples w... Read More
Economy Not So Rosy for the Middle Class Aug. 08, 2019
We keep hearing about this wonderful economy of ours. Jobs plentiful. Inflation low. Interest rates ... Read More
Freedom From Consequences Isn't Freedom Jun. 26, 2019
On Monday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., desperate to revive his flagging campaign, proposed a far-rea... Read More
An Answer to the Cost of College and Community Collapse: Community Colleges Apr. 16, 2019
PITTSBURGH — When the Pittsburgh Pirates opened their season two weeks ago at PNC Park, Nathan... Read More
Got a College Grad in Your Basement? Call the Den Mothers! Feb. 26, 2019
Do you have a recent college graduate living in your basement? Is your child getting close to gradua... Read More
The Disappearing of Generation X Feb. 08, 2019
Generation X — born between about 1961 and 1981 — have been "disappeared" from the media... Read More
