A look at how the post-pandemic return of negative reporting of past due balances will impact the credit scores of student loan borrowers.| Liberty Street Economics
A look at how the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent policy responses disrupted long-term trends underlying U.S. student loans.| Liberty Street Economics
After forty-three months of forbearance, the pause on federal student loan payments has ended. Originally enacted at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the administrative forbearance and interest waiver lasted until September 1, 2023, and borrowers’ monthly payments resumed this month. As discussed in an accompanying post, the pause on student loan payments afforded borrowers over $260 billion in waived payments throughout the pandemic, supporting borrowers’ consumption and...| Liberty Street Economics
“If I would have gone to college after school, I would be dead broke,” says 19-year-old Daniel Moody. “The type of money we’re making out here, you’re not going to be making that while you’re trying to go to college.”| Fortune
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