#Loans

More reading on the student debt crisis: “Higher education today exacerbates and reinforces inequality and the racial wealth gap. Prior to COVID, 70% of Black Americans were projected to default
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The volume of NWSL players signing loans or contracts in Europe is straightforward. Players need games. Parts of Europe are in a much better place than the US with COVID-19.
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If you have any doubt that the medical field does a disservice to low-income patients, look no further than the way physicians treat their colleagues and trainees from low-income backgrounds.
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1/nMany of you know I have a pinned tweetIt’s there for a reasonThere has not been a SINGLE day that goes by that I don’t get at least one messageA
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Student loans contribute to wealth disparity because they make post-secondary cost MORE for those who can’t afford it in the first place.Poor & middle class students pay a premium for
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Neither of my parents had college (or... high school) educations. I heard my whole life that getting a degree, any degree at all, would guarantee me a serious starting salary
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In 1982 I worked in the bad loans department of $BMO.CA. This was in the wake of the ultra-high interest rate war on inflation, when prime got up to 22.5%.
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All systemic issues exist because system leaders prevent system from changing. They determine limits for others within which people are allowed to navigate not beyond them. This applies to racism,
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The SBA will restart PPP on Monday. Lenders targeting underserved communities will have exclusive access to offer loans to new borrowers Monday and Tuesday. They will then be able to
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Talked with two different startups this morning. One was a white founder & the other an underestimated founder. The convo on how they raise money was two completely different conversations.
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Something like 95% of law students go to law school wanting to do public-interest law; 5% actually do. That's not because of some nefarious PMC socialization. It's because we come
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6 months ago I got blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime, last week I got yet another opportunity in this career and I truly can’t thank God enough because
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If debt forgiveness is bad politics because of resentment I think that’s worth considering even though the resentment wouldn’t be justified. But I think the idea that the forgiveness would
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Based on polling, the most-vocal opponents are older White folks who no longer have college loans of their owns who also benefited from low cost higher ed (and helped their
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I majored in humanities (Government / History). I had to take on loans to get my state education, which I'm still paying. Today, I work at a small non-profit.All of
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FWIW, this is the big problem with the Catholic Church tapping into PPP money. That money was meant for small businesses and small nonprofits.But the Administration subverted the language of
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