Press Release: U.S. House GOP Aims for Cuts that Cost Working Families and Those Struggling to Make Ends Meet

U.S. House Budget Committee is scheduled to review a budget resolution that makes hard-working families pay more and worsens budget deficits with massive tax cuts for the […]

Maine lawmakers need to protect student loan borrowers

A new report from the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) highlights another way that the very companies that are supposed to be helping Maine student loan […]

Testimony in Support of LD 1507, An Act To Establish a Student Loan Bill of Rights to License and Regulate Student Loan Servicers

In Maine, most students do borrow for college. Sixty-three percent left school with debt in 2015, carrying an average debt load of $30,000. The debt load is […]

Testimony in Support of LD 1404, An Act to Ensure the Integrity of For-profit Colleges

We have a public and economic interest in making sure that students have access to affordable higher education that will give them the skills they need to […]

Testimony in Support of LD 1129, An Act to Address College Affordability

I would urge the committee to recognize the serious nature of the college affordability crisis in our nation and state. Please also bear in mind that college […]

Testimony in Support of LD 32, An Act to An Act To Increase the Size of Grants under the Maine State Grant Program

For a PDF of this testimony, click here. January 23, 2017 Good afternoon, Senator Langley, Representative Kornfield, and members of the Joint Committee on Education and Cultural […]

Maine College Affordability Gap Analysis: Dependent Students, Four Years at University of Maine System

Graphic referenced in testimony in support of LD 32, An Act to An Act to Increase the Size of Grants under the Maine State Grant Program, click here. […]

Let’s make sure that every Mainer who aspires to succeed can go back to school

With summer beginning to wind down, thousands of Mainers are getting ready to go back to school. This September, Maine’s post-secondary schools—colleges, universities, and community colleges across […]

Total U.S. Postsecondary Adult Education Enrollment (bar chart)

Another tilt at the windmill, more wasted taxpayer funds, but a win for uninsured Maine young people

The Supreme Court today declined to hear the LePage Administration’s appeal of a November 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the Administration’s request to cut 6,000 […]