Major new updates announced by the Education Department this month could impact millions of Americans with federal student ...

The Education Department quietly announced that there are no plans to restore a tracker that had allowed borrowers to assess ...

Student loan borrowers have spent much of 2025 trying to keep up with massive changes to the federal student loan system. That includes changes to repayment plans and borrowing limits. NPR's Cory ...

Since its establishment in 1979, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has shaped federal student loan policies, which have, in turn, influenced the rising cost of an education and the loans to pay ...

Preston Cooper at AEI recently published an analysis of the latest federal student loan data, and the results were sobering: 5.5 million borrowers in default, another 3.7 million more than 270 days ...

Lawsuits and budget recommendations under President Donald Trump's administration have made the future of federal student loans uncertain. The limbo that student loan borrowers are facing has paved ...

The Department of Education oversees $1.6 trillion of student loans. The Trump administration is gearing up for major changes to the Department of Education, which, among its other functions, oversees ...

Republicans on the House education committee publicly unveiled their plan Tuesday to remake the federal student loan system while also cutting more than $330 billion in federal spending to help offset ...

When Congress passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in July, one of its most profound changes flew under the radar. The new law includes a set of reforms to fix one of the worst-run federal ...

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