The federal government pays a company to manage its loans. The government instructs it to cancel a borrowers' debt. Two years later, the servicer has not. This is literally theft. It's time for MOHELA's contract to be completely terminated.

The California Trucking Association is fighting rules under the state's Clean Air Act. Members of the CTA include big corporations who pay lip service to greening their businesses, like Amazon, FedEx, and UPS. From our friends at Revolving Door Project: prospect.org/environment/20…

I feel like this should be a priority for those who want to nationalize things. The government pays private companies to collect money for them and they're bad at it. Yet the IRS exists and has a long track record of accepting payments. x.com/ddayen/status/…

We ran a story about the attempted union busting by Eos this week. Didn't matter, they voted union anyway. prospect.org/labor/2024-09-…

“What we have seen specifically with MOHELA, they are at the top of every list you don’t want to be at the top of. For call times, complaints, messing things up, they stand out,” Eileen Connor told The American Prospect. Let's finish the job and get borrowers the relief they are owed. Read

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Would be nice if Kamala Harris got involved here. Her campaign didn't respond for comment, but she's been touting taking on fraudulent for-profit colleges and getting loan discharges. She should make sure they're actually happening.

Not a band to be outdone, Spinal Tap is demanding that the Trump campaign refrain from playing “Sex Farm” at their rallies.

"It’s unlikely any [Harris donors] are withholding contributions based on [Lina Khan's] fate at the FTC" When are these rich donors going to realize they have nowhere else to go unless they want to get Donald Trump elected msn.com/en-us/money/ot…

Updated this story with a statement from the Department of Education: prospect.org/education/2024…

UPDATE: This is now 0.00086%! nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

Check out today's weekly roundup with Robert Kuttner and me talking about Trump and Harris's economic rollouts. prospect.org/videos/2024-09…

Absolutely brutal right now. 90 at the coast. This is the one week a year we use our AC.

Me in 2000: Wait, are you telling me the backup wide receiver for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays supports the Democrats? (also, f*ck Dick Cheney FWIW)

Harry Whittington's still alive!

Actually no he died last year, so the people who would be swayed by a Dick Cheney endorsement is back to zero, unless the devil has U.S. citizenship and is over 18

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