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WASHINGTONPOST (Danielle Douglas-Gabriel) - Student loan payments will soar if borrowers don’t act soon, but glitches abound

The Education Department will put millions of people in the most expensive repayment plan if they don’t exit Save, but the process has had snags.

THEFEDERALIST (Mark Mazman) - 5 Ways The Right Can Start Fixing The Student Loan Crisis Without Punishing Taxpayers

We need to do something to bridge the gap back to the American dream for college grads.

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Kentucky auditor warns Beshear: State risks losing funding if fraud continues

Ball said that her letter “put Governor Beshear on notice that President Trump will no longer tolerate the issues within his administration that allow waste, fraud and abuse to run rampant in Kentucky's public benefits programs.”

AI:Kentucky Auditor Adam Ball has issued a formal warning to Governor Andy Beshear, stating that systemic mismanagement and rampant waste, fraud, and abuse within Kentucky's public benefits programs are jeopardizing federal funding. Ball's notice makes it clear that the Trump administration will no longer tolerate these administrative failures, signaling that if Beshear fails to rein in this uncontrolled spending and corruption, the state faces severe financial consequences and a loss of crucial resources.Open

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - LA controller warns that 2028 Olympics could prove costly for taxpayers

Many Olympic host cities have experienced cost overruns. For example, the Montreal 1976 games put in a bid for $360 million and had a final outturn cost of $2.9 billion. That’s an overrun of 720%.

AMERICANTHINKER - Single-bureau credit reports endanger mortgage market

By Steve Sherman A reliable mortgage market needs accurate and consistent information, especially when small differences in a credit assessment can determine whether a family qualifies for a loan or what price it pays.

YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Student Loan Defaults Hit a Record High

Federal student loan defaults have reached a record high. Nine million borrowers have defaulted, which is up from 5.3 million in June of last year. NewsNation's Nick Smith reports.

AMERICANGREATNESS (AG News Staff) - Federal Regulators Direct Banks to Scrutinize Loans to Illegal Aliens

Federal banking regulators have closed a long-standing loophole that allow illegal immigrants borrow money from U.S. financial institutions with little scrutiny of their legal status. […] Source

YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Biden-era SAVE plan ending for roughly 7 million student loan borrowers; what can they do? | Sunrise

On July 1, the Biden-era Saving on a Valuable Education plan (better known as the SAVE plan) will end; limits will be imposed on how much graduate students and parents (through the Parent PLUS loans) can borrow in federal student loans, and a graduate borrowing program will end. #Studentloans #Saveplan #Collegeloandebt

AXIOS (Courtenay Brown) - The AI boom's historical warning

Data: BIS ; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Today's AI buildout resembles earlier technological revolutions and capital booms that ended in painful busts. - That's the new warning from the Bank for International Settlements, a top forum known as the "central bank for central banks." Why it matters: The technological revolutions that transform the economy have a long history of attracting more investment than what near-term returns justify. - The risk is that AI follows the same pattern at a moment when the global economy is unusually reliant on a single investment boom to keep the expansion on track. Flashback: Some of the world's greatest technological breakthroughs — canals, railroads, the internet — sparked enormous investment…

JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Virginia report flags financial risks at several rural hospitals

The report, presented to the Joint Commission on Health Care, examined the financial and operational condition of Virginia’s rural hospitals amid concerns about workforce shortages, rising costs and reimbursement challenges.