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Overwhelmed by recent changes to student borrowing and loan repayment?
Come to the experts at AccessLex!
Visit our Student Aid Policy and Action Center page and check out the FAQs to get all the answers you need.
AccessLex.org/SAPAAC
Come to the experts at AccessLex!
Visit our Student Aid Policy and Action Center page and check out the FAQs to get all the answers you need.
AccessLex.org/SAPAAC
August 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Overwhelmed by recent changes to student borrowing and loan repayment?
Come to the experts at AccessLex!
Visit our Student Aid Policy and Action Center page and check out the FAQs to get all the answers you need.
AccessLex.org/SAPAAC
Come to the experts at AccessLex!
Visit our Student Aid Policy and Action Center page and check out the FAQs to get all the answers you need.
AccessLex.org/SAPAAC
Reposted by Nancy Conneely
Beginning July 1, 2026, professional students, which include law students, will be limited to borrowing a maximum of $50,000 per year in unsubsidized loans, with a lifetime cap of $200,000, while graduate students will be limited to $20,500 per year and $100,000 annually. www.law.com/nationallawj...
Big Beautiful Bill May Not Be Pretty for Prospective Law Students | Law.com
Professional students, which include law students, will be limited to borrowing a maximum of $50,000 per year in unsubsidized loans, and will no longer be eligible for the federal Direct PLUS loan.
www.law.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Beginning July 1, 2026, professional students, which include law students, will be limited to borrowing a maximum of $50,000 per year in unsubsidized loans, with a lifetime cap of $200,000, while graduate students will be limited to $20,500 per year and $100,000 annually. www.law.com/nationallawj...
NYT: Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage
Trump Bill’s Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
NYT: Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage
Celtics-Knicks series. I’m ready ☘️
May 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Celtics-Knicks series. I’m ready ☘️
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US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
April 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z
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Early intervention is critical for newborn babies and parents. That’s changing under Trump.
• CDC’s newborn hearing program cut — states may lose follow-up care
• Genetic screening panel disbanded — fewer rare conditions caught early
• Maternal health survey scrapped — less data to improve outcomes
• CDC’s newborn hearing program cut — states may lose follow-up care
• Genetic screening panel disbanded — fewer rare conditions caught early
• Maternal health survey scrapped — less data to improve outcomes
April 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Early intervention is critical for newborn babies and parents. That’s changing under Trump.
• CDC’s newborn hearing program cut — states may lose follow-up care
• Genetic screening panel disbanded — fewer rare conditions caught early
• Maternal health survey scrapped — less data to improve outcomes
• CDC’s newborn hearing program cut — states may lose follow-up care
• Genetic screening panel disbanded — fewer rare conditions caught early
• Maternal health survey scrapped — less data to improve outcomes
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BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
April 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.
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Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts
The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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One thing life gave me is resilience.
Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life.
Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.
Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life.
Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.
April 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
One thing life gave me is resilience.
Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life.
Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.
Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life.
Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
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The team at HHS that produces the annual federal poverty guideline was eliminated on 4/1. These are used to determine eligibility for major federal & state safety net programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, and child care subsidies. Numbers released in Jan 2025: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...
Poverty Guidelines
The 2025 poverty guidelines will be on public display at the Federal Register tomorrow and will be published in the next few days.The Poverty Guidelines API is now available with the 2025 data.U.S. Fe...
aspe.hhs.gov
April 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The team at HHS that produces the annual federal poverty guideline was eliminated on 4/1. These are used to determine eligibility for major federal & state safety net programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, and child care subsidies. Numbers released in Jan 2025: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
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Since St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, just a friendly reminder that it’s St. Paddy, not St. Patty ☘️
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Since St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, just a friendly reminder that it’s St. Paddy, not St. Patty ☘️
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Offices hardest hit by ED layoffs:
- Federal Student Aid
- Office of Civil Rights
- Institute of Education Sciences
- Federal Student Aid
- Office of Civil Rights
- Institute of Education Sciences
Three Charts Showing Who Secretary McMahon Cut at the Department of Education - Education Reform Now
ERN is a network of supporters across the advocacy and policymaking arenas working to expand what works and change what is broken in the public education system.
edreformnow.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Offices hardest hit by ED layoffs:
- Federal Student Aid
- Office of Civil Rights
- Institute of Education Sciences
- Federal Student Aid
- Office of Civil Rights
- Institute of Education Sciences
Reposted by Nancy Conneely
The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.
Hearing that nearly all the employees in the statistics agency inside the Education Department -- NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) -- have lost their jobs. Rumors that the NAEP test -- the nation's report card -- will no longer be run by NCES. This info is not confirmed.
March 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.
Reposted by Nancy Conneely
Core ED functions include: processing 17+ million FAFSAs, providing 6.4 million students with Pell Grants, disbursing 6.4 million student loans, and managing loan repayments for 43 million borrowers. None of this happens magically, without people.
I started writing this when we expected an exec order last week, but cutting half its staff will make it hard if not impossible for ED to fulfil its core functions.
Functions that most voters, including Republicans, say they favor.
#EduSky
www.forbes.com/sites/edward...
Functions that most voters, including Republicans, say they favor.
#EduSky
www.forbes.com/sites/edward...
Department Of Education To Lay Off 50% Of Staff. Polling Shows Voters Oppose Eliminating The Agency
The Trump administration is expected to fire half the staff at the Department of Education today, even as polling shows voters support the work of the federal agency.
www.forbes.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Core ED functions include: processing 17+ million FAFSAs, providing 6.4 million students with Pell Grants, disbursing 6.4 million student loans, and managing loan repayments for 43 million borrowers. None of this happens magically, without people.
House CR would lead to:
- DC public schools to cut $350 million
- Metropolitan Police Department to cut $67 million
- D.C. Fire & EMS to cut $42 million
- The Department of Human Services – which handles homelessness and other social services – to cut $28 million
- DC public schools to cut $350 million
- Metropolitan Police Department to cut $67 million
- D.C. Fire & EMS to cut $42 million
- The Department of Human Services – which handles homelessness and other social services – to cut $28 million
Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools
Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.
51st.news
March 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
House CR would lead to:
- DC public schools to cut $350 million
- Metropolitan Police Department to cut $67 million
- D.C. Fire & EMS to cut $42 million
- The Department of Human Services – which handles homelessness and other social services – to cut $28 million
- DC public schools to cut $350 million
- Metropolitan Police Department to cut $67 million
- D.C. Fire & EMS to cut $42 million
- The Department of Human Services – which handles homelessness and other social services – to cut $28 million
New executive order seeks to limit PSLF
Trump signs order to limit who gets public service student loan forgiveness
The president says some nonprofit organizations that qualify for the program are engaging in illegal activity, without offering any proof.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New executive order seeks to limit PSLF
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I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do.
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
March 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do.
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...
Since St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, just a friendly reminder that it’s St. Paddy, not St. Patty ☘️
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Since St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, just a friendly reminder that it’s St. Paddy, not St. Patty ☘️
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.
Reposted by Nancy Conneely
The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
March 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Reposted by Nancy Conneely
Read our letter which expresses opposition to any proposals in the pending House budget reconciliation bill that would eliminate or cap the Grad PLUS Loan Program or PSLF.
tinyurl.com/mr3nwsmd
tinyurl.com/mr3nwsmd
February 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Read our letter which expresses opposition to any proposals in the pending House budget reconciliation bill that would eliminate or cap the Grad PLUS Loan Program or PSLF.
tinyurl.com/mr3nwsmd
tinyurl.com/mr3nwsmd
Reposted by Nancy Conneely
In their updated blog post, our Managing Director of Policy and our Director of Financial Education discuss:
▪️Challenges to the SAVE plan;
▪️Effects on student loan and repayment programs; and
▪️What steps borrowers can take.
Check it out!
tinyurl.com/y62fnbc8
▪️Challenges to the SAVE plan;
▪️Effects on student loan and repayment programs; and
▪️What steps borrowers can take.
Check it out!
tinyurl.com/y62fnbc8
February 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In their updated blog post, our Managing Director of Policy and our Director of Financial Education discuss:
▪️Challenges to the SAVE plan;
▪️Effects on student loan and repayment programs; and
▪️What steps borrowers can take.
Check it out!
tinyurl.com/y62fnbc8
▪️Challenges to the SAVE plan;
▪️Effects on student loan and repayment programs; and
▪️What steps borrowers can take.
Check it out!
tinyurl.com/y62fnbc8