{"podcast":{"title":"The College Investor Audio Show","slug":"the-college-investor-audio-show-414113","podcast_index_feed_id":414113,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-college-investor/","website_url":"https://thecollegeinvestor.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f3c20c77-1ea5-4d2e-a65a-e87b0a5c9f68/college-investor-podcast-cover-c1.png","author":"The College Investor","episode_count":1036,"summary":"The College Investor podcast is a daily audio show that's dedicated to bringing you the best of TheCollegeInvestor.com. We discuss a variety of topics, all relating to millennial money - including student loan debt, investing, earning more money, and more! Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor and a Millennial Money Expert, shares how to get out of student loan debt so that you can start investing and building wealth for the future. Instead of cutting expenses and living a frugal life, he advocates side hustling and entrepreneurship to earn extra money to achieve your financial goals.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T20:18:09.903988+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113"},"episode":{"title":"Lawsuit Demands Proof Education Dept. Delivered $23 Billion in Student Loan Forgiveness","slug":"lawsuit-demands-proof-education-dept-delivered-23-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness","published_at":"2026-07-16T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113/lawsuit-demands-proof-education-dept-delivered-23-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113","url":"https://thecollegeinvestor.com/83697/lawsuit-demands-proof-education-dept-delivered-23-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2f71241d-23ab-4847-99df-f74ad45aecb8.mp3","summary":"A new federal lawsuit is trying to answer a question more than 1.5 million student loan borrowers have been asking: did the Department of Education actually cancel the loans it publicly promised to forgive? The Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) sued the Department (PDF File) on July 1, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, after the agency sat on fifteen Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (some for more than two and a half years) seeking records on how it carried out its announced group discharges. The College Investor team has previously filed similar FOIA requests for borrower defense data , the latest with a response in 2023, which took roughly 14 months to process.","meta_description":"A new federal lawsuit is trying to answer a question more than 1.5 million student loan borrowers have been asking: did the Department of Education actual…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":399,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113/episodes/lawsuit-demands-proof-education-dept-delivered-23-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113/lawsuit-demands-proof-education-dept-delivered-23-billion-in-student-loan-forgiveness.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}