
Broke, Busted, And Disgusted
This pro-education documentary film examining the true costs of college aired on CNBC in September 2017. It features research from One Wisconsin.
09/02/2017
This pro-education documentary film examining the true costs of college aired on CNBC in September 2017. It features research from One Wisconsin.
Declining financial support for higher education has shifted costs onto consumers, increased student loan debt and decreased the affordability of higher ed.
We need to get serious about real, common sense reforms to student loan debt before the crisis becomes a full-blown economic catastrophe.
Through the recession, college tuition skyrocketed at public universities to make up for flagging state funding. Some students who borrowed to keep up with rising costs face crushing debt repayments.
A Wisconsin student calls for action on the higher ed debt crisis. HuffPost Live goes on campus to speak with two students fighting for change.
Our research shows how the vicious cycle of student loan debt is a danger to the finances of students & their families and to our national economy.
It’s graduation time. While that’s supposed to be a joyous time for grads and their families the plain truth is that college grads are coming into a world of uncertainty: debt, lack of jobs, the prospect of no social security. Scot Ross joins the Melissa Harris-Perry panel.
A study by One Wisconsin Institute reports that it takes an average of 21.1 years to pay back the student loan debt accumulated from earning a bachelor’s degree.
“This is not a sustainable state of affairs. We need reform and we need it now,” Analiese Eicher said in a press release.
The more college debt that students incur, the less likely they are to choose to work in a lower-wage profession such as teaching.
The memo shows yet again how borrowers caught in the $1.6 trillion student debt crisis have been treated unfairly by the system.
Wisconsin remains in the top ten states in the nation for the percentage of graduates with student loan debt.
Analiese joins Matt Rothschild in the Madison studios to talk the state budget, student loan debt and soccer.
Mike Browne, deputy director of liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, said the GOP proposal is "ludicrous".
Republican state legislators revealed they will propose a plan to increase tuition at University of Wisconsin schools.
According to One Wisconsin Now... more than one million Wisconsinites carry $24 billion in total student-loan debt.
Republicans refused to include Tony Evers' 2019 budget provision to help by setting up a state plan for allowing borrowers to refinance their loans.
Candidates in the Democratic presidential primary support student loan debt reforms with several already having rolled out formal plans to help take on the $1.5 trillion crisis.
There is no debating that $1.5 trillion in student loan debt is a national economic crisis.
One Wisconsin Institute even estimates the average length of repayment at a little over 21 years.
Nearly two-thirds of graduates in 2017 left college in Wisconsin not just with a degree but also an average debt of nearly $30,000.
One Wisconsin Institute found that the average length of repayment for student debt borrowers is 21.1 years.
According to a study from One Wisconsin Institute, it takes an average of 19.7 years to pay off a 4-year degree.
One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Analiese Eicher appeared on WRRD-AM to discuss the student loan debt crisis.
Republican majority on the Joint Committee on Finance refused the opportunity to provide help to student loan borrowers today.
GOP leadership in the state legislature released a memo announcing they are axing state budget proposal to help student loan borrowers.
Indeed Walker himself apparently faced this problem, as Analiese Eicher, Executive Director of ... One Wisconsin Now, points out.
Borrowers who are currently repaying federal student loans would be able to refinance their loans with the federal government.
"This is a real crisis," said Analiese Eicher, executive director of longtime refinancing advocate One Wisconsin Now.
“Student loan borrowers are Democrats and Republicans, young and old, rural and urban, men and women, people of color and white.”
Gov. Tony Evers has directed his administration to develop a plan to provide common sense relief to state student loan borrowers.
Gov. Tony Evers includes important steps to address the $1.5 trillion-plus student loan debt crisis and protect voting rights.
Tony Evers announced his budget plan will take steps toward implementing a plan to let borrowers refinance their student loans.
According to a survey of 61,000 respondents conducted by One Wisconsin Institute, the average time to pay off student loan debt is 21.1 years.
If Republicans want to make bipartisan progress on a critical issue, helping student loan borrowers is a common sense solution.
Scott Walker is now criticizing Tony Evers for supporting a tax break for student loan borrowers and a common sense plan to help them refinance student loans.
According to One Wisconsin Institute’s “Student Loan Voter Scorecard,” Vukmir has consistently voted against ... college students in Wisconsin.
One Wisconsin Now Program Director Analiese Eicher today delivered testimony at a public hearing before a federal negotiated rule-making committee.
John Nygren has been seeking information about a program in Connecticut that helps borrowers there refinance their student loans at lower interest rates.