Today, Gov. Scott Walker, on the two year anniversary of the suspension of his 71-day run for President, signed the 76-day late 2017 state budget into law.
Nationally, Wisconsin places sixth for percentage of graduates with debt and seventeenth highest for the average amount of debt.
In broad daylight they voted to stick it to the hardworking Wisconsin student loan borrowers who took on the personal responsibility to pay for their education.
Private jets, private schools and private equity fund managers win, the vast majority of Wisconsinites, especially student loan borrowers, lose.
Bryan Kelly talks with Analiese about reforms to help student loan borrowers refinance their debt. [WRRD-AM]
A poll of Wisconsin voters commissioned by One Wisconsin Institute found nearly two-thirds of poll participants would favor a student loan refinancing program. [The Student Loan Report]
The poll, commissioned by the liberal policy group One Wisconsin Now and conducted by Public Policy Polling, shows just 31 percent of voters are against such a plan. [WKOW-TV]
Results of a new poll commissioned by One Wisconsin Institute finds broad support for reforms to help student loan borrowers.
This pro-education documentary film examining the true costs of college aired on CNBC in September 2017. It features research from One Wisconsin. [CNBC]
Leading student debt advocates have joined together to mobilize support for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program with online resources at ProtectPSLF.org.
One Wisconsin Institute, found that people with student loan debt are far more likely to rent versus own a home. [The Progressive]
Attorneys General are speaking out against actions of the Trump administration that put the best interests of their states citizens at risk. Brad Schimel is not.
The Donald Trump Administration is getting it completely wrong, protecting predatory for profit colleges instead of hard working students and taxpayers.
Robin Vos has done nothing to to address the hate crimes, inspired by these hateful ideas, students of color have endured. [Shepherd Express]
While Attorneys General across the country continue to take actions to protect the rights of student loan borrowers, Brad Schimel continues to do nothing.
A study from the One Wisconsin Institute finds that it takes graduates of Wisconsin universities 19.7 years to pay off a bachelor's degree. [CNBC]
Vos has done nothing to fully understand why students of color have protested speakers, nor has he addressed the hate crimes students of color have endured. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
A bill restricting free speech on University of Wisconsin campuses, Assembly Bill 299, is being debated by the legislature today.
Scott Walker and Donald Trump may be a perfect match, but over 43 million Americans with student debt deserve better than the policies of this duo.
Wisconsin Republicans push college free speech bill that would punish hecklers. But a critic says the bill actually suppresses free speech. [Fox News]
A survey by the One Wisconsin Institute found the average amount of time needed to repay a loan for a bachelor’s degree was about 21 years. [GoodCall]
There's no excuse for failing to act when presented with common-sense solutions to the economic crisis of student loan debt. [Capital Times]
Allowing any two people to trigger an investigation into a student's protest activities will exacerbate an existing chilling atmosphere on free expression for students of color. [Capital Times]
Rep. Jesse Kremer, author of an unconstitutional plan to attack free speech rights on UW campuses, has offered an amendment that makes the plan even worse.
Cost of Republicans' own schooling may explain ignorance of student loan debt crisis, but it doesn’t excuse their refusal to help.
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal group One Wisconsin Now, said Kremer's amendment makes his original proposal even worse. [Associated Press]
Savion Castro, a UW student and One Wisconsin Now research associate, talks with HBO's VICE News Tonight about free speech and racism on college campuses. [HBO]
Trump has shown the 43 million Americans who owe $1.4 trillion in student debt that he does not care about them. [The Progressive]
Amendment to Allow Student Loan Borrowers to Refinance, Just Like You Can With a Mortgage, Would Put State on Road to Reform.
Career Politician Scott Walker Supported Budgets Hiking Tuition 56 Percent in State Legislature, Imposed 30 Percent State Funding Cut as Governor.
Scott Walker’s latest scheme would undermine protections for Wisconsinites from predatory for-profit colleges at a time when it is needed more than ever.
Gov. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Republican Party gathers for their convention this weekend, at the same time students graduate from UW schools across the state.
“What this bill is is a systematic and coordinated attempt to attack the First Amendment and free speech rights and intimidate students and faculty,” he said. [Capital Times]
Savion Castro, a UW-Madison senior who works for the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said there’s a difference between hosting a conservative speaker like Vos — whom he would welcome — and people like the author Charles Murray who argue that white men are genetically superior. [Associated Press]
Not only would this bill expel students for using their constitutional right to free speech, but also it could inhibit professors from conducting research.
Giving some rich kid who's had every advantage imaginable $5,000 that could go to someone where it might make [a] difference is a complete failure of priorities. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
A study by One Wisconsin Institute revealed that on average, a graduate with a bachelor's degree will take 21 years to repay their student loans. [Associated Press]
“This is an attempt to squelch speech on campus,” argues One Wisconsin Now executive director Scot Ross. [Wisconsin Radio Network]
Students could be expelled from a state university or technical college for organizing a protest to “dissuade” speakers from appearing on campuses.
The bad news is if our leaders continue to fail to act, we’ll be facing $2 trillion day soon. [La Crosse Tribune]
But the liberal group One Wisconsin Now said the GOP lawmakers behind the bill were the fragile snowflakes. [Lakeland Times]
Republican Rep. Jesse Kremer admitted “I agree” with critics who call his Campus Speech Suppression bill unconstitutional.
Scot Ross of One Wisconsin Now told Twin Cities Press the bill’s supporters are “fragile snowflakes” trying to punish free speech. [Raw Story]
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin No responded by calling Kremer and the bill's other authors "fragile snowflakes." [MLive]
The 43 million-plus student loan borrowers in the U.S. look to be in line for another attack from Donald Trump, according to the one page tax “plan” released.
Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, called Vos and the bill's other authors... "fragile snowflakes." [Associated Press]
The liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now blasted the proposal as an attempt “to create mandatory safe spaces [for conservatives].” [Wisconsin State Journal]
Mincing fewer words, Scot Ross, executive director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, called the bill’s authors “fragile snowflakes.” [deathandtaxes]
One Wisconsin Now blasted the proposal, saying it would create “mandatory safe spaces” that help protect racist and sexist speech on campus. [Wisconsin Radio Network]
Republicans want to make our campuses safe spaces for Republicans to be free of criticism and subject students to legal sanctions if they speak out.