Biden has canceled $1.5 billion in student loan debt so far. It doesn’t mean broad forgiveness will come soon – CNBC

In early July, the U.S. Education Department under President Joe Biden canceled nearly $56 million in student loan debt for some 1,800 borrowers, bringing the administration’s total to about $1.5 billion erased. While a win for many borrowers, it isn’t a sign that broad-based student loan debt forgiveness will necessarily come anytime soon, experts say.…

AG Healey Celebrates Debt Relief Victory for Thousands of Former Corinthian Students in Massachusetts – Mass.gov

BOSTON Today, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Education dropping its appeal of a federal court order canceling the loans of 7,200 students in Massachusetts who were defrauded by Corinthian Colleges, Inc. Corinthian operated two for-profit schools in Massachusetts under the name Everest Institute. By…

Amid the Pandemic, Nepal Takes Key Step Toward Debt Transparency – World Bank Group

COVID-19 hit Nepal hardand at a particularly inopportune time. Nepals public debt increased by 35.5 percent in FY2019/20 amid mounting expenditures to mitigate COVID-19 and falling tax revenues due to slowdown in economic activities. The government had established the national Public Debt Management Office (PDMO) in 2018. Its new staff, re-assigned to PDMO from other…