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Big Beautiful Bill May Not Be Pretty for Prospective Law Students | Law.com Professional students, which include law students, will be limited to borrowing a maximum of $50,000 per year in unsubsidized loans, and will no longer be eligible for the federal Direct PLUS loan.

Beginning July 1, 2026, professional students, which include law students, will be limited to borrowing a maximum of $50,000 per year in unsubsidized loans, with a lifetime cap of $200,000, while graduate students will be limited to $20,500 per year and $100,000 annually. www.law.com/nationallawj...

Trump Bill’s Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage

NYT: Caps on Grad School Loans Could Worsen Doctor Shortage

Celtics-Knicks series. I’m ready ☘️

US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts

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Early intervention is critical for newborn babies and parents. That’s changing under Trump.

• CDC’s newborn hearing program cut — states may lose follow-up care
• Genetic screening panel disbanded — fewer rare conditions caught early
• Maternal health survey scrapped — less data to improve outcomes

BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.

That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.

Exclusive: US consumer safety agency to stop collecting swaths of data after CDC cuts The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.

Scoop for @reuters.com: On Friday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...

One thing life gave me is resilience.

Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life.

Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

The team at HHS that produces the annual federal poverty guideline was eliminated on 4/1. These are used to determine eligibility for major federal & state safety net programs such as SNAP, Medicaid, and child care subsidies. Numbers released in Jan 2025: aspe.hhs.gov/topics/pover...

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

Since St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, just a friendly reminder that it’s St. Paddy, not St. Patty ☘️

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

Three Charts Showing Who Secretary McMahon Cut at the Department of Education - Education Reform Now ERN is a network of supporters across the advocacy and policymaking arenas working to expand what works and change what is broken in the public education system.

Offices hardest hit by ED layoffs:

- Federal Student Aid
- Office of Civil Rights
- Institute of Education Sciences

The dismantling of NCES is insane and will critically hobble progress in improving education - this agency is so important it existed more than 100 years before the creation of Department of Education.

Core ED functions include: processing 17+ million FAFSAs, providing 6.4 million students with Pell Grants, disbursing 6.4 million student loans, and managing loan repayments for 43 million borrowers. None of this happens magically, without people.

Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.

House CR would lead to:
- DC public schools to cut $350 million
- Metropolitan Police Department to cut $67 million
- D.C. Fire & EMS to cut $42 million
- The Department of Human Services – which handles homelessness and other social services – to cut $28 million

Trump signs order to limit who gets public service student loan forgiveness The president says some nonprofit organizations that qualify for the program are engaging in illegal activity, without offering any proof.

New executive order seeks to limit PSLF

I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do.

There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share.
drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...

Since St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, just a friendly reminder that it’s St. Paddy, not St. Patty ☘️

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

We speak today on behalf of the legal profession and its members who seek to live by the oath each took upon admission to the bar. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession. These efforts cannot be sanctioned or normalized. There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation. We acknowledge that there are risks to standing up and addressing these important issues. But if the ABA and lawyers do not speak, who will speak for the organized bar? Who will speak for the judiciary? Who will protect our system of justice? If we don’t speak now, when will we speak? The American Bar Association has chosen to stand and speak. Now is the time for all of us to speak with one voice. We invite you to stand with us.

The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read full message: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Read our letter which expresses opposition to any proposals in the pending House budget reconciliation bill that would eliminate or cap the Grad PLUS Loan Program or PSLF.

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In their updated blog post, our Managing Director of Policy and our Director of Financial Education discuss:

▪️Challenges to the SAVE plan;
▪️Effects on student loan and repayment programs; and
▪️What steps borrowers can take.

Check it out!

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Our policy team is actively involved in advocating for policies and programs that impact accessibility and affordability of higher education.

In our new video, follow our Policy Manager during a day of meetings on Capitol Hill!

Congress is working on a budget bill that could eliminate Grad PLUS Loans, cap PSLF, and make IDR less affordable.

Visit our #MakeTheCase action center to send a pre-drafted email telling your Members of Congress how altering these programs could impact you.

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Just got off the phone with Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), who said Elon Musk's DOGE team is "actively dismantling" federal Department of Education programs today.

"They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts."

not everything you love in your teenage years holds up but Green Day was cooking with American Idiot

Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...

Yesterday, the Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data about schools each year. @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social