U.S. student loan borrowers have been relegated to second-class citizenry. Two years later, their plight appears poised to worsen.

Address the debt ceiling crisis by divesting the Federal Direct student loan portfolio, which can yield a trillion-dollar reduction in federal debt.

The student loans financial freight train is headed downhill and is picking up speed.

As Navient lawsuits wind their way through the courts, an obvious question lingers: Why would any financial services company run this kind of risk?

Ever hear of the term risk-based pricing?

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “lenders offer different consumers different interest rates or other loan terms, based on the estimated risk that the consumers will fail to pay back their loans.”

Said differently, the higher the risk, the higher the rate.

Lenders are perfectly justified in pricing their products […]

If reports are true, Trump's student loan plan may not be as bleak as it sounds... so long as the administration adds some key caveats.

Here's how the Trump administration could help stop (or exacerbate) the student loan debt problem.

There is a fix to the student loan problem: restructure the whole portfolio.