WASHINGTON, D.C. – Cory Booker is out of the presidential race and back in New Jersey running for reelection to the U.S. Senate. One of his possible Republican challengers – former prosecutor Stuart Meissner – took to Twitter early Friday Read More
Rutgers will hold off collecting tuition from furloughed federal employees’ kids
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Rutgers raised its tuition rates 2.3% this school year. With the shutdown putting some federal employees’ paychecks on hold indefinitely? And a deal between President Trump and Speaker and Pelosi nowhere in sight? The president of Rutgers Read More
Rutgers favors the long-dead over its loan-battered living
Yes, we routinely give Rutgers University’s administration a healthy dose of grief here at Save Jersey. Don’t feel bad; it’s all well deserved. Taking hundreds of millions of dollars in tax dollars to transform a legendary, historic institution into a Read More
The Student Loan Bubble Is Crushing Black People
Black college graduates are being burdened with far more student debt than their white peers and are struggling more to pay it off, according to a new paper analyzing student loan trends. The paper, published by the Brookings Institution, examines Read More
Rutgers doesn’t care about illegal immigrants’ kids. They want the money!
By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog Yes, Save Jerseyans. It’s that simple. The goal of Saturday’s publicized Rutgers University college fair for “undocumented” (read: illegal) immigrants wasn’t as altruistic as it seemed. For the second year in a row, Read More
Limit Debt By Creating Less
A Partial Solution to the Problem of Student Loan Debt By Dale Glading | The Save Jersey Blog The year was 1973 and I was in the 8th grade. The physical education teacher at our school thought it would be a good idea Read More
Another Bubble About To Pop…
Big government never takes a breather, does it? I feel like the federal lending program that was initially designed to make college education affordable to everyone in the country is becoming vaguely reminiscent of the subprime lending debacle of 2008… Read More
Small Government Can Make Big Impacts
I think that you know by now I am a big proponent of small government, Save Jerseyans, which brings me to my concern du jour – tuition assistance for higher learning. We have heard about one of Obama’s “wins” to successfully increase Read More