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After a win in the U.S. Supreme Court last year, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is leading a coalition of states challenging the Department of Education’s second attempt at loan forgiveness. The federal program could waive or help with payments for more than 8 million borrowers.
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A Missouri Foundation for Health report finds both planned and unexpected costs of medical care create financial, physical and emotional burdens for the state’s residents. “It's a system where even insured folks struggle,” one analyst says.
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The report follows the end of the free federal school meals program, which paid for breakfast and lunch for students at all income levels from March 2020 through June 2022. Since the program ended, families in Kansas have experienced a six-fold increase in school meal debt.
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The Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority — MOHELA — is named 85 times in the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion striking down the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness program. The ruling affects more than 777,000 Missourians with federal student loans who would have received $10,000-$20,000 of relief.
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On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that dismayed millions of people who were hoping for debt relief through President’s Biden program. Many of those borrowers live in the Midwest states that brought the case to the high court.
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The court unanimously dismissed on standing grounds a challenge to President Biden's groundbreaking plan to forgive some or all federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans.
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The former U.S. Senator who represented Missouri from 2011 to 2023 told Up To Date he has “no doubt” a deal to raise the debt ceiling will be made between President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy before money likely runs out in early June. The debt ceiling currently stands at $31.4 trillion.
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On Tuesday, the justices will hear expedited arguments in a challenge to the Biden plan brought by six states — Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas and South Carolina.
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Instead of health insurance, the Rev. Jeff King had signed up for an alternative that left members of the plan to share the costs of health care. That meant lower premiums, but a huge hospital bill.
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“This is a big win for our office and for Americans across the country, and we will keep up the fight," said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, one of six Republican attorneys general who sued over the loan relief program.
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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued the stay, ordering the Biden administration not to act on the program while it considers a motion from six Republican-led states — including Missouri and Kansas — to block loan cancellation.
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A federal judge dismissed an effort by six Republican-led states, including Missouri and Kansas, to block the Biden administration's plan to reduce student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans.