{"id":191601,"date":"2009-07-21T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/21\/student-loan-overhaul-passes-house-education-and-labor-committee\/"},"modified":"2009-07-21T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:57:00","slug":"student-loan-overhaul-passes-house-education-and-labor-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/21\/student-loan-overhaul-passes-house-education-and-labor-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Student-Loan Overhaul Passes House Education and Labor Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, the proposal becomes law, it will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aULjvXUoQ8OE\">end subsidies to private student loan providers<\/a>, saving money for students and taxpayers to the tune of $87 billion over 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The student loan providers are even less deserving than Goldman Sachs, so here is hoping that this becomes law, though getting it through the Senate may be difficult, as the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> largest student loan provider is Nelnet, based in Lincoln, Nebraska, home of Senator Ben Nelson, who will almost certainly support a filibuster against the measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, the proposal becomes law, it will end subsidies to private student loan providers, saving money for students and taxpayers to the tune of $87 billion over 10 years. The student loan providers are even less deserving than Goldman Sachs, so here is hoping that this becomes law, though getting it through the Senate may &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,968,1004,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-education","category-finance","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}