A newly empowered California consumer protection agency has signed a data-sharing deal with multiple fintech companies in an effort to keep an eye on the benefits and risks of their products.
A troubled college accrediting body was once thrown a life raft by the Trump administration. Career officials at the Education Department (ED) are now recommending Biden let it sink.
Senate Budget Committee Chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and congressional Democrats are renewing their push to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.
The Biden administration is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
Student loan borrowers are riding the Reddit-fuelled GameStop (GME) wave, betting that they’ll be able to use the profits to pay off their debt.
The Biden administration is advancing on its commitments to address climate change, John Kerry, presidential climate envoy, said during a conference.
California’s revamped consumer protection agency is investigating twelve debt collectors for engaging in predatory practices.
With Democrats holding a majority in the House and Senate, one expert believes the Biden administration to take bold action on the nearly $1.7 trillion in student loan debt held by roughly 43 million Americans.
As a new administration comes into power amid the pandemic, an Obama-era official thinks the country needs to rethink the value of higher education.
The Trump administration’s Education Department (ED) released a memo detailing how it finds student loan debt cancellation via executive order illegal. But experts say the reading is excessively narrow and politically motivated.
Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan looks back at Betsy DeVos’s tenure as head of the Department of Education.
President-elect Joe Biden renewed his push to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour during a press conference Thursday night in which he unveiled his pandemic relief bill.
Americans are increasingly taking advantage of the buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) offerings thanks to a growing number of financial technology companies.
President-elect Joe Biden will extend the penalty-free payment pause on federal student loans to on “day one” of being in office.
Beyond her ED being sued 455 times, the most in any administration since ED became a cabinet-level agency in 1980, what is the legacy of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos?
Across the country, minimum wage hikes went into effect on January 1, 2021, bringing the debate to raise the federal wage once again to the forefront.
A provision in the new coronavirus stimulus package taps on a nascent trend that could soon help student loan borrowers across the country.
Amid reports that China is slowing down its investments in a trillion-dollar project called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) one U.S. aid agency says it’s still going full steam ahead.
One way to avoid canceling student debt is to fix the current way Americans currently repay their loans. But one expert believes that the system is simply too broken to fix.
President-elect Joe Biden cast doubt on a popular Democratic idea involving executive action that would cancel up to $50,000 in federally-held student loan debt for roughly 43 million American borrowers.
President-elect Joe Biden nominated Miguel Cardona, a former public school teacher and current Connecticut Education Commissioner, to be the next U.S. Department of Education Secretary on Tuesday.
A new set of national surveys, provided exclusively to Yahoo Finance, show strong support for government action to address the student loan crisis, which includes $1.55 trillion in federally-held student debt as of Q3 2020.
The current student loan repayment system has lost its purpose, says one expert. And cancelling it doesn’t have to be that complicated.
A taxpayer-funded agency called the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is committing up to $2 billion to address energy scarcity across the world, according to a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
House Democrats introduced a new resolution to pressure President-elect Joe Biden to address student loan debt, calling on him to cancel $50,000.