Gainful Employment Rule Gains Little for Students
The Department of Education's proposed "gainful employment" rule is a step forward but falls short of protecting consumers from unaffordable debt created by predatory educational programs at for-profit colleges, according to the Center for Responsible Lending."The rule, as it stands now, does not adequately protect students," said Maura Dundon, senior policy counsel at CRL. "It allows too many students to emerge from for-profit institutions with no ability to repay their loans. No career-college student should ever say that 'going to college was the worst mistake in my life' because of her