My Highest-Earning NewsBreak Story in September was About Student Loan Debt
Higher interest rates mean even MORE crushing debt
2 min readOct 3, 2024
I write about consumer finance issues over at Substack. I also cover these issues in brief at NewsBreak.
Writing consumer news and covering local politics both yield good results for me on that platform.
It’s very much a “just the facts” type of writing — and I often expand on those topics at Substack.
In September, the number one topic in terms of views and earnings was about student loan debt. Specifically, an increase in interest rates on student loans that will mean loans taken out for the 2024–25 academic year will cost borrowers more.
Here’s that story:
In related news, student loan servicer Navient was fined $120 million and banned from the federal student loan program because of a track record of bad actions:
