Student-loan borrowers might face even more hurdles resuming payments if Republicans end up passing their new proposal to cut funding for the Education Department

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President Joe Biden accompanied by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as he announces new actions to protect student-loan borrowers in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC.
President Joe Biden accompanied by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as he announces new actions to protect student-loan borrowers in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC.

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A federal watchdog is suing a tech boot camp, accusing it of loading students up with 'predatory' debt and telling them it could collect 'more than the consumer legally owed'

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Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, at Senate committee hearing in June.

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Biden's administration just kicked off the process to get student-loan forgiveness to millions of borrowers, vowing to 'work as quickly as possible under the law'

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Supreme Court's decision on the Administration's student debt relief program in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday, June 30, 2023.

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Student-loan payments are about to restart and 'exacerbate financial distress' for millions of borrowers, Elizabeth Warren says. Here are 6 steps she wants Biden to take to soften the blow.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

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Student-loan borrowers can tell Biden what they want from his new debt relief plan. Here's how.

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Joe Biden
President Joe Biden.

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Blue-collar workers could save the US from recession as the tech industry withers

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Construction work on a new apartment building in Austin, Texas in February 2023.
Construction work on a new apartment building in Austin, Texas in February 2023.

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Misclassifying employees as gig workers creates 'a race to the bottom' for businesses, Biden's top labor and antitrust regulators say

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Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of National Labor Relations Board
Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of National Labor Relations Board.

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Biden promised student-loan borrowers cheaper payments and more debt relief. The government might not have enough money for everyone to actually get those benefits.

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President Joe Biden speaks on the student-debt-relief plan in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 17, 2022, in Washington, DC. Biden gave an update on the student-debt-relief-portal beta test.
President Joe Biden speaks on the student-debt-relief plan in the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on October 17, 2022, in Washington, DC.

The government's main budget experts confirmed that the US could risk economic catastrophe as soon as early June

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President Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden.

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JD Vance defends Trump's comments that Republicans should let the US default, saying the former president was giving 'political advice' and doing 'fundamentally the right thing'

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JD Vance and former President Donald Trump shake hands in 2022.
JD Vance and former President Donald Trump shake hands in 2022.

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