Mark Huelsman
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Higher ed, inequality, debt, mobility, wealth, sports, kittens, anything else therein.
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It looks like the House of Representatives is done for the week, and will be out of D.C. until Apr. 28. No action was taken to address the $1.1 billion hole that it blew in the city's local budget, raising the potential that cuts to programs and staff will start being made.
April 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
It looks like the House of Representatives is done for the week, and will be out of D.C. until Apr. 28. No action was taken to address the $1.1 billion hole that it blew in the city's local budget, raising the potential that cuts to programs and staff will start being made.
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People also need to understand this isn’t federal money, this is DC money collected through DC taxes. They’re openly stealing from the city with the intent to immiserate the people living there because they resent the idea they should be allowed to govern themselves.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
People also need to understand this isn’t federal money, this is DC money collected through DC taxes. They’re openly stealing from the city with the intent to immiserate the people living there because they resent the idea they should be allowed to govern themselves.
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Heritage: "reducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families." www.heritage.org/education/re...
Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,
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March 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Heritage: "reducing federal higher education subsidies and loan cancellation that place the federal thumb on the scale in favor of spending years in postsecondary work of questionable value will help young Americans to start and expand their families." www.heritage.org/education/re...
Forbearance steering is now the official policy of the Department of Education.
A memo obtained by The Washington Post shows borrowers could be locked out of all affordable repayment plan options for at least three more months.
It could be months before affordable student loan repayment plans return
A memo obtained by The Washington Post shows borrowers could be locked out of all affordable repayment plan options for at least three more months.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Forbearance steering is now the official policy of the Department of Education.
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The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...
February 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...
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By eliminating CFPB Student Loan Ombudsman, the President is making clear his crusade to “delete” the CFPB is a gift to corporations and a betrayal of working families.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
By eliminating CFPB Student Loan Ombudsman, the President is making clear his crusade to “delete” the CFPB is a gift to corporations and a betrayal of working families.
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Look, you may not like it, but when it comes to lowering costs for families, taking $300 billion to make your student loans more painful and another $200 billion to quite literally snatch food away from hungry people, well, that's just what peak performance looks like.
The House GOP plan calls cut taxes by $4.5 trillion - partially offset by more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid & SNAP
So they wanna do a giant tax cut that disproportionately helps the rich while taking away people's health insurance and food while still adding trillions to the debt.
So they wanna do a giant tax cut that disproportionately helps the rich while taking away people's health insurance and food while still adding trillions to the debt.
February 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Look, you may not like it, but when it comes to lowering costs for families, taking $300 billion to make your student loans more painful and another $200 billion to quite literally snatch food away from hungry people, well, that's just what peak performance looks like.
The overall human toll here is staggering and honestly hard to wrap your head around, but it’s also just true that *ALL OF THIS* (gutting CFPB, draining colleges of funding overnight, and the expected deregulatory barrage from ED) is going to result in massive cost spikes for middle-class families.
This has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with the Trump / Musk regime waging war on ideologically disfavored institutions.
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.
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February 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The overall human toll here is staggering and honestly hard to wrap your head around, but it’s also just true that *ALL OF THIS* (gutting CFPB, draining colleges of funding overnight, and the expected deregulatory barrage from ED) is going to result in massive cost spikes for middle-class families.
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NEW POLL: Trump's plan to abolish @usedgov is extremely unpopular among voters.
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![Polling data showing A Majority of Voters Across Age and Education Lines Oppose an Executive Action to Abolish the U.S. Department of Education. January 31 to February 2, 2025 survey of 1,294 U.S. likely voters. [Groundwork Collaborative logo] [Data for Progress logo] [Student Borrower Protection Center logo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nxplpfqvshf7ugncsoqbd3xk/bafkreickl7pjj7czhra54wvcvj7mqx6424wdgtcep7h7rigaq3pt6fxpde@jpeg)
February 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NEW POLL: Trump's plan to abolish @usedgov is extremely unpopular among voters.
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