By Susannah Snider “Here’s the good news: A greater percentage of students are repaying their federal loans. The most recent three-year student loan default rate dropped from 14.7 percent to 13.7 percent, according to data from the Department of Education....
By Gracie Smith Work study, the program that helps low-income students attend college and work to help pay their tuition at the same time, is not working, according to a report released this week from the group Young Invincibles (YI). Read more...
By Allie Bidwell “The number of borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans has declined for the first time in several years, the Department of Education announced Wednesday. Nationally, the default rate has declined to 13.7 percent for borrowers...
By Michael Stratford “The Federal Work-Study Program needs to be revamped to help serve more low-income students, says a report released Monday by Young Invincibles, a student advocacy group. The group calls on Congress to replace the existing formula for distributing federal...
By Chronicle Staff “Report: “A Federal Work Study Reform Agenda to Better Serve Low-Income Students”… Summary: The formula for determining how federal work-study funds are allocated to colleges and universities is outdated, the report says, often favoring larger, private colleges instead of community...
By Emily Deruy “Work-study is supposed to help poor students earn money to pay for college. But student advocates say the government program is failing to serve the low-income students it was designed to help. In a report released Monday,...
Young Invincibles’ Deputy Director Rory O’Sullivan writes for The Hill’s Congress Blog on student loan refinancing as it comes up for a vote this week in the U.S. Senate: “The soaring cost of college and static federal financial aid support have left millions of students with...
As part of Morning Edition’s youth unemployment series, NPR’s David Greene spoke with Young Invincibles’ Deputy Director Rory O’Sullivan about broader credentialing options that exist for graduating high school students, the disproportionate ratio of students to guidance counselors, and optimism moving forward for today’s job-seeking millennials:
On August 11th, Young Invincibles’ Closing the Race Gap report was highlighted by The Aspen Institute in their ongoing series Five Best Ideas of the Day as their number one pick:
By Scott Bridges “Recent college graduates’ pay is far off the pace of the rest of the workforce — college-educated or not, according to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.” Read more here.