So if we are caught in a set of policies right now that are accentuating inequality, we must still recognize that we are...
The cost of college has risen compared to a working wage. That then has not been compensated for by Pell grants.
I think that tells you that there is something wrong with the banking system as it is operating today.
The best-off are the job creators, so if we concentrate wealth with the job creators, we will have more jobs.
We can do better than this, and you have given us some great ideas to work with.
We know that this country can afford to do for this generation and subsequent generations what it did to create the grea...
we are making it far more expensive to get that education.
Thank you.
there is a demand for these loans; therefore, we should simply leave the system as it is and allow these 500-percent loa...
Let me also ask that the record remain open for 1 week for additional statements and questions from Members.
So one idea we have been pursuing--and Senator Warren has been in the forefront of this--is enabling folks to refinance ...
refinancing student debt should be a no-brainer.
When I was Speaker of the House in Oregon, we passed a law that limited the payday loan interest rates down to about 36 ...
This trend of increasing inequality is diminishing not only our economic strength but also our working families' trust i...
This is a very huge predatory practice that as a society you would think that we would be able to get control over, but ...
the only reason that we do not do that and that that kind of reform cannot come through the Senate at this moment is the...
this is a program where there is a consensus that it genuinely helps people in need, and particularly our vulnerable chi...
Lately, however, I have become concerned that there is a political strategy by some in Congress to turn pension policy i...
