GAO On Setting Student Loan Interest Rates: It Depends
“I wanted to cut interest rates on federal student loans to 1 percent and all I got was this lousy GAO report.”
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CFED’s Scorecard of the States: Making the Case for Assets Reform
44 percent of American households live in liquid asset poverty—that’s the key takeaway from CFED’s 2014 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard.
Obama Cares about Improving Economic Mobility – But Where are the Specifics?
“Opportunity is who we are. And the defining project of our generation is to restore that promise.”
Early Education: Popular, Prominent, and Paused
There’s plenty of political enthusiasm for public investments in early education these days.
Who is myRA?
No, not who, what. But it’s still a valid question.
Video: Subprime Learning
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As Farm Bill Moves Forward, Indiana Mulls Asset Limit Reform
The final bill will be a blow to low-income families, cutting over $8 billion from the program.
As it Happened: 2014 State of the Union
Our blow-by-blow analysis of the State of the Union.
Can Tax Policy Live Up to Its New Role in the Fight Against Poverty?
Tax policy is making up a greater share of anti-poverty programs compared to direct spending programs.