The Trump administration’s Department of Education has effectively halted enrollment in four popular federal student loan ...

The scale of the student loan crisis is significant. Since 2011, student loan debt has outgrown auto loans and credit card debt. And the financial impact extends beyond individual borrowers.

Despite record levels of student loan forgiveness, student debt totals are higher today than when President Biden took office.

What’s causing the student loan crisis? Biden’s measures, which were of a higher caliber than any of his predecessors’, weren’t enough to reverse the total debt balance from rising.

Student loan borrowers could see their payments increase under budget plans currently under discussion by House Republicans, a violent about-face after years of working with the Biden ...

This achievement is critical as the student loan debt crisis continues to impact millions of Americans, with the national student debt load reaching $1.773 trillion as of 2025. Photo Courtesy of ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a halt on most of the CFPB's work. It could impact rules on overdraft fees, ...

For years, I told consumers who ran into problems with their auto loans, mortgages, credit cards, payment apps, student loan servicers ... involved taking medical debt off credit reports.