student loan debt

More than 320,000 people in Utah have federal student loans. On May 5, the U.S. Department of Education will start collecting loans from defaulters and is expected to garnish wages this summer.

Kansas’ Republican attorney general argues that Biden overstepped his authority in creating the SAVE Plan, which was made available to borrowers last year and has already canceled loans for 150,000.

A vote using the 1996 Congressional Review Act could eliminate the president’s $400 billion loan forgiveness program.

Republicans say Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will fuel inflation. But a University of Utah economics professor thinks that’s just a political talking point.

Future Utah college students could have access to a $12 million scholarship fund. And state inmates could see increased and more streamlined education offerings in prisons and jails.

Roughly 300,000 people in Utah are paying off student loans. Thirty-seven percent of them would have no debt if President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive loans goes through.

As the Federal Government considers cancelling debt for student loan borrowers, one Utah company thinks there’s a better solution. It wants to insure college degrees.

Student loans are on the minds of Utah Millennials, along with finding a job to pay off that debt. The latest Utah Foundation study comparing attitudes…

Higher education dropped out of the Utah Foundation’s survey of voter concerns over the past couple of election cycles, but it turned up again in its 2012…