“Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be”: Would That Student Debtors Heeded the Bard

 

Sources

The U.S. Makes It Easy for Parents to Get College Loans—Repaying Them Is Another Story
(Wall Street Journal)

DeVos Halts Obama-Era Plan to Revamp Student Loan Management (New York Times)

Trump Administration Scraps Obama Plan for Student-Loan Servicing (Wall Street Journal)

To Ease the Student Debt Crisis, Hold Colleges Responsible (FiveThirtyEight)

A Better Way to Finance That College Degree (Wall Street Journal)

The College Scam: How Boomers Betrayed Millennials (New York Post)

Some Colleges Step Up to Ease Students’ Debt Burden (Wall Street Journal)

Student-Loan Defaults Rose by $1.1 Million in 2016 (Wall Street Journal)

 

Further Reading

Whose Side Is Betsy DeVos On? (New York Times)

Loans “Designed to Fail”: States Say Navient Preyed on Students (New York Times)

Teachers, Lawyers and Others Worry About the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness (National Public Radio)

Student Loan Defaults Are Rising Faster Than You Think (Washington Post)