Market commentator The Kobeissi Letter warned that the U.S. student loan crisis is intensifying as delinquent federal student debt climbed to a record high in the first quarter of 2026, signaling ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. From repayment, to collections, to loan forgiveness, student ...

Starting July 1, millions of borrowers will need to choose from a new menu of repayment options as the Trump administration enacts major changes to the student loan system.

'I just keep hoping that it will just magically go away or I'll just die': A growing feature of the nation's $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis is Americans living with student loans for their entire ...

Current outstanding student loan debt in the United States is now over $1.7 trillion. An estimated 43 million American adults have student loan debt. To put these numbers in context, the estimated ...

Most Americans see college as excessively expensive, but it wasn't always that way. Over the last decade, the cost of attending a four-year public college or university has grown significantly faster ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The Department of Education has started sending notices to borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans, affecting millions of Americans carrying debt from the nation's $1.67 ...

Proposed changes to federal student loans threaten to shrink the nursing workforce when we can least afford it. Our nation is in the throes of a health care crisis, and we should be doing everything ...

The Trump administration plans to garnish paychecks of borrowers who are in default on their federal student loans. The Department of Education says it will begin sending out notices to about 1,000 ...

In Germany, riding the subway without buying a ticket is called schwarzfahren—quite literally “riding in the dark.” While it saves you money on the ticket, you’re always riding the train with a ...

Student loans crisis ‘comparable to PPI scandal’, education tsar suggests - This year has seen rising criticism of the ...