Should Student Loan Debt Be a Crime?
An 18 year-old with no credit history and no job walks into a bank and requests a loan to buy a $100,000 condo. What is the loan officer most likely to say?
An 18 year-old with no credit history and no job walks into a bank and requests a loan to buy a $100,000 condo. What is the loan officer most likely to say?
Rep. Lloyd Doggett | Posted 05.25.2011
On Day One of this new Congress, after years of professing great concern about the national debt, Republicans are abandoning pay-as-you-go budgeting, returning to the Bush-Cheney approach -- endless borrowing.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011
Bunning is a Republican superhero. He personifies the mean-spirited, hypocritical, wealthy-serving, obstructionist Republican Party.
Ryan Mack | Posted 05.25.2011
Despite how you feel about Bunning's motivation, his position that as a country we must start paying for things as we go in order to not place debt on the shoulders of our future generations is correct.
AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Saturday new budget rules that say spending cuts must accompany spending increases will force Congress ...
Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011
The divisions are deep, the fear explosive, and real solutions hard to find. But still, in each community, in each school and in each workplace, a small voice here and there says, "Yes... we still can."
Rep. Steny Hoyer | Posted 05.25.2011
Progressives understand that growing debt and interest payments, unless curtailed now, will eat up money that should go to the long-term investments that matter most, like clean energy, education and health care.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The deficit debate in Washington misses the fundamental point, said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday, arguing that the primary objecti...
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 05.25.2011
Members of the House of Representatives once again canceled a health care markup session on Thursday after negotiations with Blue Dog Democrats stalle...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed budget rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the...
Keli Goff | Posted 12.31.2011