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Feb 14

On this day, 12 February 1945, the treaty of Varkiza was signed in Greece, when communist anti-Nazi partisans agreed to surrender their weapons in return for amnesty and participation in politics. However the Right failed to hold up their end of the bargain and began mass arrests and killings of communists. It was a key event in the buildup to the Civil War, in which the Greek government, including Nazi collaborators, supported by the British and Americans fought the Greek resistance movements. The conflict lasted for years with the victory of the Right.
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npr:
A critical new report from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General finds the department’s student loan unit failed to adequately supervise the companies it pays to manage the nation’s trillion-dollar portfolio of federal student loans. The report also rebukes the department’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) for rarely penalizing companies that failed to follow the rules.
Instead of safeguarding borrowers’ interests, the report says, FSA’s inconsistent oversight allowed these companies, known as loan servicers, to potentially hurt borrowers and pocket government dollars that should have been refunded because servicers weren’t meeting federal requirements.
“By not holding servicers accountable,” the report says, “FSA could give its servicers the impression that it is not concerned with servicer noncompliance with Federal loan servicing requirements, including protecting borrowers’ rights.”
The Education Department’s independent watchdog reviewed FSA oversight records from January 2015 through September 2017, a period that includes both the Obama and Trump administrations. Among the Inspector General’s findings: While FSA did document servicers’ many failures to follow the rules, it did not study these isolated failures to identify broader patterns of noncompliance that could have hurt many more students.
Federal Watchdog Issues Scathing Report On Ed Department’s Handling Of Student Loans
Illustration: Hanna Barczyk for NPR
And here I will be, like so many others, paying those loans back till I’m in my 40’s.

(Source: NPR, via ancientsasswarrior)