Trump’s First 100 Days: No Student Debt Relief In Sight – International Policy Digest (press release) (blog)

Business /08 Jun 2017 During his presidential campaign last year, Donald Trump outlined ideas to help students dig out from underneath their educational debt load. Student debt has skyrocketed to a record $1.4 trillion, with many of those borrowers in default. Many economists believe this is acting as an anchor on the U.S. economy as…

Greek president to Germany: Don’t let election affect stance on debt – Reuters

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos urged German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble not to let domestic politics influence his decision on providing debt relief to Greece. Pavlopoulos told Die Welt newspaper in an interview published Friday that Greece had implemented pension cuts and tax reforms as promised, and Germany should also keep its promises and approve some…