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No Cancelled Student Loans For Student Loan Borrowers Due To FERPA Violations In recent weeks, social media platforms, particularly TikTok, have been abuzz with misleading claims suggesting that filing a complaint under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act could lead to the cancellation of student loans. As just one…
Value stocks have had a difficult time over the last few years, but things could be looking up, especially for investors who seek out lesser-known names. In recent interviews with me, Jim Zimmerman, Abigail Zimmerman, and Ara Laterovian with Lowell Capital, and Ted Rosenthal with TMR Capital each shared their…
Greg Samios, President and CEO of Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer, leading customer-led innovation and a transformed workforce. The start of a new year is an ideal time for reflection and growth. In my world, this is an opportunity to think about the care continuum and how we can foster…
A federal appeals court issued a new ruling on Tuesday extending and expanding a block on student loan forgiveness under several popular repayment plans. While the court stopped short of fully striking down the plans, the decision suggests that loan forgiveness under these programs may ultimately not survive judicial scrutiny.…
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Typically voting is thought of as a highly personal decision and practice. And yet, in the world of public markets, most investors that take the time to vote their proxies tend to actually outsource these decisions, or at least, the research behind them, to just two companies: Institutional Shareholder Services…
Mohaimina Haque, CEO at Tony Roma’s. Attorney & General Counsel. Immigration, Business Law expert. Adjunct Law Professor. It was 7 p.m. on a winter evening in my home office and my computer screen was lighting up like a Christmas tree with emails—students awaiting Zoom links for tomorrow’s law school lecture,…
Americans’ household debt levels, including credit card debt, rose to new all-time highs in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The report showed that overall household debt increased by $93 billion to $18.04 trillion at the end of 2024,…
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