26 Jan, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
Student Loan Interest Rates to Double This July
There's a countdown to an ominous deadline for college students across America. When time runs out on July 1, 2012, student loan interest rates will double for almost 8 million students.
Without a plan, millions of students will pay a crushing $5,000 more on their student loan than they otherwise...
13 Jan, 2012 [ (0) Comment ]
Private tyro loans a tough bulb to crack
Last October, President Obama announced a broad initiative to provide relief for college graduates struggling to repay student loans. In a speech at the University of Colorado in Denver, Obama said the plan will lower monthly payments for 1.6 million borrowers.
Jessica Fernandez won’t be one of them.
Fernandez, 29,...
8 Dec, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
Student Loans Threaten Economic Future
Student loans have been in the spotlight more than ever recently as the Occupy Wall Street movement sheds light on severity of student debt and the trouble most post graduates experience paying it back. Many college graduates who took out loans 10 or 20 years ago and entered the...
6 Dec, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
Cal State Long Beach Prez Meets Obama Today
Editor's Note: We received this after the meeting so for speed reasons we are sharing the full press release from Cal State Long Beach:
Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) President F. King Alexander was one of just 10 university presidents and chancellors invited to a private White House ...
4 Dec, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
Get supervision out of tyro loan business
Yet President Barack Obama, insistent that “we can't wait for Congress to do its job,” is poised to make these problems worse with his latest end-run around Congress. His plan will impose more costs on American taxpayers while causing college tuition to spike even...
29 Nov, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
Forgive us the tyro loan debt
In this Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011 file picture, students attend graduation ceremonies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala. The number of borrowers defaulting on federal student loans has jumped sharply, the latest indication that rising college tuition costs, low graduation rates and poor job prospects...
2 Nov, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
What Obama’s tyro loan devise can offer your family: Your Money experts import in
...1 Nov, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
Should tyro loans be liberated in bankruptcy? Rep. Hansen Clarke explains …
U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit)Can lessening the amount of student loan debt really help to stimulate the economy?It's a billion-dollar question -- maybe a trillion-dollar one -- that several lawmakers think they have the answer to. Last...
30 Oct, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
Obama and possibilities residence tyro loan remodel – Times
Erixon is a junior politics and rhetoric double major and can be contacted at william.erixon@drake.edu
In the last week it has been encouraging to watch education policy, and student loan reform in particular, become visible issues in the presidential race. Almost everyone in the Republican field has come out in favor of eliminating...
29 Oct, 2011 [ (0) Comment ]
