Tom Harkin: “Despite all of the economic benefits of pensions, fewer and fewer people are earning a new benefit every year.”

I wish to announce that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will to meet on November 20, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room SD-430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing entitled ``Hearing on the nomination…

The Protect Student Borrowers Act would hold colleges and universities accountable for student loan defaults by requiring them to repay a percentage of defaulted loans.

I particularly appreciate that the students from Westwood, which closed in 2016, finally have been granted relief.

The Biden Administration has taken some important steps to right those wrongs, discharging student loans for borrowers who were not able to graduate.