1.5 MILLION AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS TO BE IMPACTED BY DOUBLING OF FEDERAL...
by Seattle Medium The Seattle Medium Interest rates on new subsidized Stafford student loans for undergraduates are scheduled to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Unless Congress acts...
View ArticleHouse passes student loans, highway jobs bill
The House on Friday overwhelmingly passed legislation to salvage 2.8 million jobs, mostly in construction, and forestall a sharp increase in interest rates on college loans. The measure cleared the...
View ArticleStudents, Beware: Private Student-Loan Companies Are Not Your Friends
by Kay Steiger Once again, student-loan season is upon us. As a new class of freshmen ships off for a hopeful first year of college or trade school, many are as busy figuring out financial...
View ArticleThe Student Debt Crisis
SOURCE: Center for American Progress With $864 billion in federal loans and $150 billion in private loans, student debt in America now exceeds $1 trillion. Endnotes and citations are available in the...
View ArticleLearning What it Takes to Go to College
Written by Gale Horton Gay College was on the minds of hundreds of middle and high school students who attended a Way2GoMaryland event Dec. 1 at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC)....
View ArticleCongress Should Allow Students to Refinance Their Loans
SOURCE: AP/L.G. PattersonUniversity of Missouri senior Kristen Overmyer studies on the columns on the Columbia, Missouri, campus Friday, September 28, 2007. Overmyer, a journalism student, didn’t...
View ArticleStudent loans to be dis-chargeable through bankruptcy; meet HR 532
BY: LOU COLAGIOVANNI The Student loan debt epidemic is reaching critical mass Credits: occupydebt.com When signing on the dotted line for a student loan the terms are quite clear. The contract...
View ArticleIt’s Our Interest: The Need to Reduce Student Loan Interest Rates
by Anne Johnson and Tobin Van Ostern SOURCE: AP/Toby TalbotStudents walk across campus at the University of Vermont on Monday, April 30, 2012, in Burlington, Vermont.Endnotes and citations are...
View Article10 Models for Student-Loan Repayment
by Sarah Ayres SOURCE: AP/Ed AndrieskiStudents walk the campus at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Thursday, February 28, 2013.Download the details of all 10 models (PDF)Endnotes and...
View ArticleStudent-Loan Debt Has a Rippling Negative Effect on the Broader Economy
by Joe Valenti, Sarah Edelman, and Tobin Van Ostern SOURCE: AP/Paul SakumaA Stanford University student walks in front of Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California,...
View ArticleBorrowers of Color Need More Options to Reduce Their Student-Loan Debt
by Sophia Kerby SOURCE: AP/Gerald Herbert Xavier University student Triton Brown studies in a common area on campus before going to one of his part-time jobs in New Orleans. It seems as though...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Analysis of the Student-Loan Interest-Rate Changes that Are...
by David A. Bergeron and Tobin Van Ostern SOURCE: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Barack Obama, joined by college students, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday,...
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