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Some of the most generous benefits of federal student loans are going away in the coming years. Here's why experts still recommend them over private loans.
Only one kid in the family could make it to medical school — and it wasn’t going to be him. Mun had done everything right. He graduated high school with honors, earned a scholarship at Northwestern University and breezed through his biology courses.
Under Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," as of July 1, 2026, new federal student loan borrowers will have just two repayment options: a standard repayment plan and an income-driven repayment plan called the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP).
Providence Public School District's 'Educator of Color Loan Forgiveness Program' was deemed discriminatory for excluding White teachers from $25,000 student loan relief opportunity.
The "One Big, Beautiful Bill" that President Donald Trump signed into law on July 4 upends the student loan repayment system for borrowers who take out loans after July 1, 2026. It also moves millions of existing borrowers (those who take out loans before July 1, 2026) to different repayment plans.
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Student loan forgiveness in the IBR plan is paused, Education Department says. Here's what to know.
The Education Department has temporarily paused loan forgiveness for an income-based repayment plan. Here are the details.
As the Trump administration and Congress narrow options for student loan repayment and forgiveness, companies from Nvidia to Estee Lauder offer a debt lifeline.
Beyond High School is a free monthly newsletter covering higher education policy and practices in Colorado. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox early. For the first time ever, the federal government has placed a cap on student loan borrowing. Borrowers will now have a lifetime limit of $257,500 for all federal student loans.
McKenzie Richards, a health care policy fellow at the conservative think tank Cicero Institute who has been studying the pace of physician shortages, told Stateline that the national physician shortage could potentially exceed 100,000 by 2034. At the end of 2024 that projected number was closer to 64,000 physicians.
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