The College Investor Audio Show

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.

The College Investor Audio Show is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 1,000 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The College Investor Audio Show, a business show with 1,000 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  The College Investor Audio Show

  Nearly 92% Of U.S. Kids Qualify For The New $1,700 Federal Scholarship Tax Credit

  Aug 15, 20265 min

  An estimated 51.7 million children (91.7% of everyone eligible to enroll in a K-12 school) meet the income test to receive scholarships under the Education Freedom Tax Credit , the federal program launching January 1, 2027, according to a new report released Tuesday by the American Federation for Children. The analysis is the first state-by-state estimate of who can actually receive money from the program, built on Census population estimates, American Community Survey microdata, and HUD income limits. The credit was created as Section 25F of the tax code by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act , the same 2025 law that overhauled federal student loan borrowing.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The College Investor Audio Show

  OIG Report: Education Department Cut 40% Of Staff, Gutting Student Loan Oversight

  Aug 14, 20268 min

  The Department of Education's Office of Inspector General has put hard numbers on the Trump administration's push to dismantle the agency , and the findings for Federal Student Aid are stark: entire sub-offices responsible for overseeing loan servicers and certifying schools for federal aid were left with no employees at all. The report lands as the Department reverses course. FSA is now hiring roughly 380 workers back and held a two-day hiring fair in Washington, D.C. on July 21 and 22 to fill more than 100 open roles. The flash report covers changes to ED's staffing, operations, contracts, and grants between January 20 and March 31, 2025 - the window that opened with two executive orders directing agencies to prepare for large-scale reductions in force .

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The College Investor Audio Show

  Senate Committee Advances Bill To Block Education Department Transfers

  Aug 13, 20267 min

  A bipartisan group of senators is moving to block at least some of the Trump administration's effort to dismantle the Department of Education . The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved S. 5046 on Thursday by a 13-9 vote , sending it to the full Senate. The bill, introduced July 21 by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) with Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), would bar the Education Secretary from offloading four of the department's offices onto other agencies. This comes a little more than two weeks after House Republicans sought to make the dismantling permanent with a series of 10 bills completely removing nearly all functions of the Department of Education .

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The College Investor Audio Show

  Senate Bill Would Exempt State Student Loans From 2007 Scandal Conflict Rules

  Aug 12, 202614 min

  A bill moving quietly through the Senate would let colleges steer students toward state-run and nonprofit student loans without triggering the federal conflict-of-interest rules Congress wrote after the 2007 financial aid kickback scandal. Nearly two decades ago, investigators found that the people students trusted most to give neutral advice (their college financial aid officers ) were quietly working for the other side of the table. Financial aid officers held stock in the lenders they recommended. Lenders paid schools a cut of the loan volume they steered. Some financial aid offices let lender employees answer their phones. Because roughly 90% of families take whatever loan their school recommends , a single line on a "preferred lender" list was worth millions to a lender. It also cost borrowers real money, since the school's recommended option is not always the cheapest one . The cleanup produced settlements, resignations, congressional hearings, and eventually a permanent set of federal rules. This proposed law would change the rules back for a small slice of the private student loan market.

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The College Investor Audio Show

  Student Loan Interest Elimination Act Gets Second Push as Defaults Hit $233 Billion

  Aug 11, 20267 min

  Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) held a press conference on Capitol Hill last week urging Congress to take up the Student Loan Interest Elimination Act (PDF File), which would set the rate on every existing and future federal student loan to 0%. The press conference marks the lawmakers' second attempt in 2026 to move the bill. Welch introduced S. 4169 in the Senate and Courtney introduced H.R. 8045 in the House back on March 24, 2026 , and neither version has advanced out of committee in the four months since. We covered that introduction when it happened. The renewed push arrives as federal default numbers reach levels the system has never recorded before.

  ListenShow Notes

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.