“We know Ron Johnson graduated from college 40 years ago, but we assumed it was from a university here on planet Earth,” quipped Scot Ross, executive director of One Wisconsin Now. [Capital Times]
Walker is making education less and less affordable, with serious consequences for our state economy and the best he can do is apparently hold photo ops with bureaucrats.
Fighting Bob Fest 2016 is less than a month away... Among the other speakers will be Scot Ross, who has feverishly campaigned for college loan reform. [Capital Times]
We know Ron Johnson graduated from college 40 years ago, but we assumed it was from a university here on planet Earth.
On the critical issue of student debt and college affordability, Sen. Ron Johnson could not be worse.
Walker Has Presided Over 40,000 Eligible Students Being Denied Financial Aid, Wisconsin Rising to 3rd Highest in Nation in Grads with Student Debt
Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used her historic address this evening to outline her solutions to the $1.4 trillion student loan debt crisis.
Unfortunately, Republicans like Ron Johnson and Scott Walker think student loan borrowers should be left to the mercy of Wall Street profiteers.
Speeches of three Wisconsin officials – Reps. Paul Ryan and Sean Duffy and Sen. Ron Johnson – contained zero references to the crisis of student debt.
He’s stood in the way of common sense refinancing to help millions of borrowers across the nation and in Wisconsin.
It's appalling Ryan would call his plan a better way while refusing to help any of the 43 million Americans with over $1.3 trillion in student loan debt.
Russ Feingold is standing with student loan borrowers in Wisconsin and renewing the call for common sense reform to allow them to refinance their loans.
The crisis of college affordability and student loan debt demands solutions. Turning students into modern-day indentured servants is not among them. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Let’s celebrate the accomplishments of our graduates and let’s resolve to make sure they don’t face futures needlessly burdened by student debt. [Capital Times]
Scott Walker is now asking for campaign donations to pay off the massive debt from his failed 71 day campaign for President because his sons are in college.
Confronting the 21st Century’s Third Rail of Economic Politics
Wisconsin Republicans stand united against common sense solutions to the student loan debt crisis that today marks the fourth anniversary of hitting and surpassing the $1 trillion mark.
Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican legislature did nothing as the student loan debt crisis worsens, refusing to act on the ‘Higher Ed, Lower Debt’ Act.
On Equal Pay Day it’s important to consider the real, negative economic consequences for women and their families when it takes them on average over four months longer for their annual pay to reach the same level as men.
The announcement drew criticism from One Wisconsin Now, a left-leaning advocacy group. Many in the state have called for allowing student loans to be refinanced, like mortgages and car loans. [UPI]
One million Wisconsin student loan borrowers want action and Gov. Scott Walker's 'solution' is reassigning a bureaucrat to answer the phone. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Based on current projections by One Wisconsin Institute, a nonprofit organization that conducts research on student loan debt, it will take 21 years or so to repay this amount. [Workforce]
Democrats Offering Student Loan Refinancing, Affordability; Republicans Offering Free Student Labor, Trump’s Scam University, Cuts to Higher Education
Analiese Eicher said she believes Republicans only intended to pass "political talking points." The group has highlighted the issue of student loan debt for several years. [Capital Times]
It would have only taken some common sense to provide real help to student loan borrowers. Apparently that was too much to ask for from Senate Republicans.
Gov. Walker and the Republicans have been exposed as phonies on the student loan debt crisis. They’ve made the crisis worse.
The liberal organization One Wisconsin Now, for example, has researched the economic impacts of student loan debt since 2011. [La Crosse Tribune]
Make no mistake, Walker didn't create Wisconsin's student loan debt. But his attacks on higher education, combined with his anemic response to the $19 billion crisis, are much like his own college career: Incomplete. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Student loan debt is burdening young people who’ve just graduated and threatening the retirements of people who have worked hard their entire lives.
Republicans are trying to pass off a scheme that denies every single person in with student debt any help lowering their monthly loan payment as a solution to the student loan debt crisis. [Capital Times]
One Wisconsin Now released a statement condemning state lawmakers who vote in favor of passing the package, saying the measures do not go far enough to address student loan debt. [Milwaukee Business News]
In the waning days of the final legislative floor period Republicans are trying to pull a bait and switch on nearly one million Wisconsin student loan borrowers.
When the candidates debate tonight in Wisconsin, they’ll be appearing in the state with the third highest percentage of college graduates with student loan debt.
As Scot Ross, director of One Wisconsin Now, pointed out, not one student loan borrower in Wisconsin will see their monthly payments reduced by one cent under the Wisconsin governor’s proposal. [Chippewa Herald]
Scot Ross with the group suggests that some Wisconsin auto plants may have shut down because college loan debt is keeping many people from buying new cars. [WIZM-FM]
“I carry with me the stories of hundreds of folks across Wisconsin and how this debt is holding them back from achieving their version of the American Dream,” Analiese Eicher said. [La Crosse Tribune]
The student loan debt and college affordability crises are real challenges facing Central Wisconsin, and real reform, not election year gimmicks, are needed.
The listening session will include a presentation from One Wisconsin Now on the student loan debt crisis, the impact state budget cuts have had on the University of Wisconsin System and its funding, and the ramifications for higher education affordability for students. [Wausau Daily Herald]
Make no mistake, Walker didn’t create Wisconsin’s student loan debt. But his attacks on higher education, combined with his anemic response to the $19 billion crisis, are much like his own college career: incomplete. [Capital Times]
I would describe Walker’s alleged college affordability plan in the same way I would characterize his own personal higher education experience — woefully incomplete. [Badger Herald]
Republicans on the State Assembly Committee on Colleges and Universities today voted for bills that will do nothing to reduce skyrocketing student loan debt.
“This is yet another indication of [Gov. Scott] Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature’s misplaced priorities,” he said. [Badger Herald]
Rep. Dale Kooyegna, Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP legislature have ducked, dodged and distorted the truth about the student loan debt crisis in Wisconsin.
A newly-released report shows Wisconsin as one of only nine states that have adopted their budget cutting funding for higher education.
But the student loan debt program coordinator at One Wisconsin Now, Analiese Eicher, says the governor's ideas, like more internships, don't go far enough. [Public News Service]
I would describe Scott Walker’s college affordability scheme the same way I would characterize his own personal higher ed experience — woefully incomplete.
The Governor has been advertising a 'listening tour' as an opportunity for citizens to share their opinions on issues with him is not open to the general public.
"They are not going to make college more affordable and they are not going to reduce the monthly payment of any of the million people with student loan debt in the state of Wisconsin," Ross said. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
In a press release issued today Rep. Dave Murphy doubled-down on support for Gov. Walker’s woefully incomplete college affordability measures supported by legislative Republicans.
Make no mistake, none of these bills will reduce by one cent the monthly student loan payments of Wisconsin student loan borrowers.