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Libby A. Nelson

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Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, Medium, MSN, The New York Times, CNBC, POLITICO, Substack, Vox, Yahoo, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education and
Covers:  student debt, higher education, federal policy, congress, financial aid, education department, religious colleges
Doesn't Cover: parents, education technology, student life, k-12 education
program director, fellowship @tarbellcenter. formerly @voxdotcom, @politico, @insidehighered

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Libby A. Nelson’s Biography

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I've covered federal policy, Congress and religious colleges for Inside Higher Ed since April 2011. Before that, I was a reporter at The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa., where I covered the regional airport, several towns and a handful of school districts.

As befits a 2009 graduate, I started as an intern-for-life, notably at the Chronicle of Higher Education (covering federal policy for nine months in 2009-10) and the New York Times (Metro desk, summer 2009). Other stops include the Star Tribu…

Libby A. Nelson’s Journalist Portfolio

Shorter's Exodus

Shorter's Exodus

A cultural change tears a Baptist college apart.

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The New Politics of Student Debt

The New Politics of Student Debt

Half a century after the first federal student loan program was established, student debt has come into its o…

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How Do You Make America the Best-Educated Country?

How Do You Make America the Best-Educated Country?

A look at a region of Tennessee with a long way to go if America is once again to have the world's highest pr…

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An Underused Lifeline

An Underused Lifeline

Despite growing national concern about student debt, far fewer borrowers use the government's income-based re…

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What's At Stake

What's At Stake

What an Obama or Romney victory would mean for the next four years of higher education policy.

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Where Have All the Women Gone?

Where Have All the Women Gone?

As women have risen to the top job at more colleges overall, they’ve lost ground in Catholic higher education…

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Articles

Who shot Trump? What we know about suspect, assassination attempt

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By Dylan Matthews, Christian Paz Verified, Libby A. Nelson Verified, Andrew Prokop Verified
| Vox Verified
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory, and conflicts about the right way to do philanthropy.
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Health insurance benefits: How do I make the most out of them?

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By Libby A. Nelson Verified, Emily Stewart Verified, Allie Volpe Verified, Dylan Scott Verified
| Vox Verified
It’s time for one of the most confusing, frustrating rituals of the year: health care open enrollment. Over the coming weeks and months, people across the country will consider questions that we try to avoid the other 11 months of the year: Is it better to have a high premium and a low deductible, or the other way around? How are you supposed to guess how much money to put in a flexible spending account? Does dental insurance actually, you know, do anything?
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The dangers of undiagnosed ADHD

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By Rach Idowu, Libby A. Nelson Verified, Dara Lind Verified
| Substack
Hi ADHDers! I started writing this post on a Ryanair flight from Budapest back to London. It was my 29th birthday last week and my friend was kind enough to get us both tickets. Let’s get started. Is it just me or have you also realized that there’s been a rise of people online saying “you all can’t have ADHD”,“people are just claiming they have ADHD” or “that’s not ADHD, everybody does that”?
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Awards

Education Writers Association

2010 - Special Interest, Institutional and Trade Publications

First prize, shared with two reporters from the Chronicle of Higher Education, for "Towns, Gowns and Taxes," a series on town-gown conflicts over universities' payments in lieu of taxes.