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Relief from Crushing Student Loan Payments

We are proposing to make federal student loans more affordable by limiting a borrower’s payments to 10 percent of the income he or she has left over after covering basic expenses. Here is an example:  The monthly payment for a single borrower earning $30,000 who owes $20,000 in loans would be $115 a month, compared [...]

IMF to Haiti: Freeze Public Wages

What the world should be pondering instead is: What is Haiti owed? Haiti’s vulnerability to natural disasters, its food shortages, poverty, deforestation and lack of infrastructure, are not accidental. To say that it is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere is to miss the point; Haiti was made poor–by France, the United States, Great [...]