from Salon:
A federal judge on Thursday held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education in contempt of court for violating an order on student loans.
The judge had previously ordered the Department of Education to stop collecting on loans owed by students of a now-defunct for-profit college. But, despite the order, the department admitted it had erroneously collected on the loans of more than 16,000 borrowers — and many of those payments garnered from borrowers' federal tax refunds or wages, according to a court document obtained by Politico. . . . .
"He called for the cancellation of the nation's more than $900 billion in student loan debt. (Roughly 42 million Americans currently have student debt."
ReplyDeleteGood ideaI Interesting article, thanks for sharing.
"erroneously" my ass.