Student loan myths and facts – Pocono Record
This is an exciting time of year in the life of a high school senior. Prom, graduation, finally settling on a college, and, of course, deciding how to pay for it.Many will need to depend on student loans. There are several important changes coming soon that new borrowers, returning student borrowers and those who are no longer in school should be aware of
Read MoreCongress needs to protect student loans – The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday: Like many disputes in Congress, the standoff involving a hike in student loan rates is deeply partisan. Unlike some others, this one carries high stakes.
Read MoreCongress should protect student loans – Fremont Tribune
Like many disputes in Congress, the standoff involving a hike in student loan rates is deeply partisan. Unlike some others, this one carries high stakes
Read MoreProtect student loans – Belleville News Democrat
The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, May 16: Like many disputes in Congress, the standoff involving a hike in student loan rates is deeply partisan. Unlike some others, this one carries high stakes
Read MoreStudent Loans And How They Will Affect Your Credit – San Francisco Chronicle
When it is time to go off to college, students are usually overwhelmed with the changes, including the idea of living on their own, their path of study, and if the college experience will change them. One thing that most students don’t consider is how their student loans will affect their credit.
Read MoreStudent loans subsidize privileged – Cincinnati.com
George Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post; georgewill@washpost.com WASHINGTON Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in primary and secondary education; the McCain-Feingold speech-rationing law (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act); an unfunded prescription drug entitlement; troublemaking by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; government-directed capitalism from the Export-Import Bank; crony capitalism from energy subsidies; unseemly agriculture and transportation bills; continuous bailouts of an unreformed Postal Service; housing subsidies; subsidies for state and local governments; and most appropriations bills.Now, with Europes turmoil dramatizing the decadence of entitlement cultures, and with American federal, state and local governments buckling beneath unsustainable entitlements, Congress is absent-mindedly creating a new entitlement for the already privileged. Concerning the problem of certain federal student loans, the two parties pretend to be at daggers drawn, skirmishing about how to pay for the solution
Read MoreCarmona: Hiking student loans would limit opportunity – East Valley Tribune
Access to higher education is the great societal equalizer and what ultimately makes the American Dream possible.
Read MoreThe Student Loan Debate – Huffington Post
You have to wonder if this wasn’t an election year, would the Senate still be battling over how to fund the proposal to keep interest rates on student loans where they are?
Read MoreStudent Loan Changes: What You Need to Know Now – U.S. News & World Report
President Obama helped to elevate the student loan interest rate debate to the national level. Student loan interest rates have been elevated to the national political stage in recent weeks, thanks to President Obama’s call on Congress to prevent the rate of one federal loan from doubling this summer. The debates surround subsidized Stafford loans that undergraduate students will take out this year. By law, the interest rate on those loans is set to jump from its current 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1, though Congress is toying with a one-year extension that would hold the current rate steady and cost the government $6 billion.
Read MoreSoFi’s Mike Cagney Wants to Fix Student Loans – Forbes
Mike Cagney is one of the smartest CEOs I’ve spoken with (and I have interviewed over 150 of them in the last couple of years for my new book, Hungry Start-up Strategy). What makes him so smart
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