Student Loans

In April, 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a plan for “universal free public college and cancellation of student...

Lawmakers will need offsets to keep year-end legislation from substantially worsening the debt, and one area we've suggested in our Mini-Bargain and...

Marc Goldwein is the senior vice president and senior policy director of the Commitee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He recently wrote an opinion...

One of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's first major policy proposals focused on college affordability. Called the " New College...

Mitch Daniels is the president of Purdue University, a former governor of Indiana, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, and a co...

Credit programs involving loans and loan guarantees are accounted for differently than most other programs in the federal budget. Whereas other...

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released a new report on Pell Grants which details the program and recent changes made to it, shows options to...

On Friday, we discussed the President's recent speeches on his policy proposals for higher education. With most K-12 schools and university funding...

As part of an ongoing series of economic speeches entitled A Better Bargain for the Middle Class, President Obama spoke yesterday at the University of...

A recent New York Times editorial gets it wrong by opposing a bipartisan student loan deal that would lower interest rates for all new students today...

Yesterday, CRFB praised the recent bipartisan agreement to enact a permanent fix for student loans instead of another temporary and costly solution...

After weeks of deliberation and two and a half weeks after a key deadline passed, we finally have a deal on student loans. A bipartisan group of...