January’s numbers for labor force participation are in, and it’s looking like Gen Z has finally caught on — they’ll need to work to pay their own way. Unfortunately, in North Carolina, they’re already late to the game. On Feb. 2, the Bureau of Labor Statistics published new data for January employment, revealing that unemployment...
Welcome and congratulations, graduating class of 2023! Now to deliver the commencement address is President Joe Biden. “Thank you and congratulations, seniors! “A commencement address is an opportunity to pass along important life advice for young people like yourselves preparing to begin your adulthood. “Because actions speak louder than words, I’d like to use the...
The View Cries ‘Tremendous Voter Suppression,’ But ‘Huge Turnout’ In many states today they can literally harvest a ballot for you. Where’s all the voter suppression? Nevermind. It’s opinions from “The View.” The constant cries over voter suppression is one of the dumber narratives in this nation. Honestly, it would be nice if everything in...
The U.S. Department of Education has started taking applications from former university students hoping to force taxpayers to pay off their loans. President Joe Biden’s loan-transfer diktat is one of the worst policies of modern times: hugely expensive, patently illegal, and grossly unfair to the millions of borrowers who worked hard and sacrificed much to...
The thought never occurred to us that our debts were the responsibility of others or that someone else might pay our bills, forgive our mortgage, or pay our student debt.
Too many professors prefer to teach courses based on their own narrow, often idiosyncratic research interests rather than teaching about the great ideas, institutions, people, and works of art that students actually want to study.
The great surges in living standards enjoyed during most of our country’s history came not from making things more expensive but by making them less expensive.
During her primary fight with Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton argued that his “free college” promise went too far. She merely advocated that students should be able to graduate “free of debt.” Now, however, Clinton has come out with a plan to make public colleges and universities free for families who earn less...
Amid the noise of the presidential campaign, some candidates are tackling a serious issue.
Now that seniors have crossed the high school graduation stage, it's important to contemplate the next steps in their lives.
The share of 25-year-olds who have student-loan debt was 43 percent in 2012, up from 25 percent in 2003.
