Politics News TheFoxPosts.com

The justices will hand down their next round of opinions on Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. The Supreme Court has left this term's blockbuster decisions for last, with rulings expected this week on student loans , affirmative action and more. The justices will hand down their next round of opinions on Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. There are 10 total cases remaining from the term that began back in October. Their rulings will decide the fate of millions of Americans with federal student loans, a 40-year precedent of race-conscious college admissions processes, how federal elections are run in the U.S. and LGBTQ+ rights. MORE: Chief Justice John Roberts defends Supreme Court's 'highest standards of conduct,' offers no new rules Already this term, the Supreme Court has weighed in on cases involving the Voting Rights Act, the Biden administration's deportation policy, the Indian Child Welfare Act and social media liability. Here's a closer look at four major issues left to...

As 28 million Americans begin repaying their federal student loan debt, economists say that won’t dramatically cut into spending but will force painful changes to budgets The pandemic pause on federal student loan payments sparked a rare opportunity for Sarah Wood and her husband: funneling the money for their monthly student loan bills to their children's education, instead of paying off their own. Over the three-year freeze on payments, in the wake of the onset of COVID-19, the couple was able to build up college funds for their 8-year-old twin daughters. "It was a huge, huge relief," Wood said in an interview from her Denver home. "We were able to save more aggressively for their college education, having both been through this situation -- that we want to so, so strongly avoid for them -- we were able to save more." Wood, 40, took out $118,000 in student loans for a master's degree in education from Columbia University back in 2010. Since then, with an ...

The Supreme Court on Friday will hand down its final opinions of the term, including highly-anticipated decisions on student loans and LGBTQ+ protections. The Supreme Court on Friday will hand down its final opinions of the term, including highly-anticipated decisions on student loan forgiveness and free speech and LGBTQ+ protections. The justices will issue decisions at 10 a.m. ET to finish the term it began back in October. Three cases remain out of the 59 argued. Their rulings will decide the fate of tens of millions of Americans with federal student loans and have an impact on free speech rights and LGBTQ+ protections . Already this week, the court handed down blockbuster decisions on affirmative action and election law. MORE: Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action at colleges in landmark ruling The court's conservative majority on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions policies Harvard University and the University of North Carolina as unconstitutional, e...

The Biden administration has touted the benefits of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program -- and teachers are sharing how they are among those benefiting As President Joe Biden moves forward with a second attempt at student loan debt forgiveness, following a 6-3 defeat at the Supreme Court, his administration has also been touting the benefits of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program as another option for some borrowers -- and teachers are sharing how they are among those benefiting. The PSLF program was first congressionally authorized in 2007, during the Bush administration, to cancel student debt for government employees like educators, firefighters and police officers as well as not-for-profit employees and others providing public services who make at least 10 years of payments on their loans. However, the original PSLF program was "poorly implemented" and many borrowers weren't successfully able to receive forgiveness , according to U.S. Ed...