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More Than Half Of People With Student Loans Are Worried They Can’t Repay
(Source: The Urban Institute)Only 1-in-5 American adults is carrying some sort of student loan debt, and yet that relatively small group of consumers accounts for more than $1 trillion owed to lenders,...
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Senate Fails To Figure Out Solution To Keep Student Loan Rates In Check
(larryt135)As we mentioned before the holiday, the U.S. Senate had gone off to make sandcastles and enjoy fireworks without figuring out a way to keep interest rates on federal Stafford student loans...
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Senate Reaches Tentative Deal On Student Loan Interest Rates
(Stuartpilbrow)One day after failing to move forward on a one-year extension of low interest rates on federal Stafford student loans, the U.S. Senate has reportedly reached a tentative agreement that...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: It’s Obscene That The Govt. Profits Off Student Loans
(phildesignart)There were several sticking points that bogged down the U.S. Senate from quickly passing legislation that would provide a long-term solution to the problem of interest rates on federal...
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Fewer Than Half Of Federal Student Loans Currently Being Repaid
It’s scary enough to think that the federal government has around $1 trillion in student loan money out there waiting to be repaid. More frightening is the fact that not even half that amount is...
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6 Costs College Students Can Probably Skip Before Heading To School
(bluwmongoose) If they haven’t already, college-age kids are probably bombarding their parents with requests for all the dingles, dangles and doodads that seem to go along with heading off to school....
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New Rules Could Hold Career Education Programs Accountable For Graduates’...
(boldsheep)While college tuitions and student loan debt has skyrocketed, a number of institutions — especially for-profit schools — have been criticized for failing to provide sufficient education and...
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How To Not Suck… At First Year College Budgets
(Scoboco)Welcome to “How To Not Suck,” a new, weekly series in which personal finance writer and consumer advocate Karin Price Mueller gives you the essential information to avoid being foolish with...
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California Sues For-Profit College Operator For Lying To Students & Investors
Heald College, along with Everest College and WyoTech, are all operated by CCI.California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed suit yesterday against a company that operates three for-profit colleges,...
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College Board & ACT Sued For Selling Personal Info Of Test-Takers
Today’s question of the day from the SAT website. See answer below to find out if you’ve still got your 10th grade math chops.As anyone who took the ACT or SAT tests remembers, shortly after you get...
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Busting The Myth That Fine-Arts Degrees Lead To The Poorhouse
(HofmanPhotos)There’s a widely held conception that people who earn degrees in the fine arts — painting, sculpture, dance, music, theater, among others — are throwing money away on a degree that can...
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4 Things You Don’t Really Need To Pay For
(jking89) We all have things that we refuse to pay for when there are free or super cheap alternatives. But while everyone knows that you can get canning jars and scratched furniture on Freecycle, did...
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71% Of Recent College Grads Owe Average Of $29K In Student Loans, Are Scared...
(afagen)The total of student loan debt in the U.S. has long since passed the $1 trillion mark, and a new report shows that this mountain of owed money is just going to keep getting bigger, while a...
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The 10 Colleges That Received The Biggest Payouts From Credit Card Issuers...
(Wi-Lo)Last year, a group of around 15 credit card issuers paid a total of more than $50 million to various schools and school-affiliated organizations in order to market credit cards to people at...
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How To Not Suck… At Saving For College
(afagen)(This is Part One of a two-part feature on paying for an education. Next week’s HTNS column will focus on the best way to borrow for college.) Next to a home purchase, sending your kids to...
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College Senior Hopes To Pay Off Student Loans By Selling Ads On Graduation Cap
A student at the University of Michigan-Flint looked into the crystal ball and saw visions of student loan debt. But what if he could figure out a way to pay off that pile of debt before he even enters...
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College Student Protests Tuition Hike By Paying With Singles
(Omer Wazir)Like many schools around the country, tuition at the University of Utah has soared in the last decade. In-state students at this school are now paying more than double what students paid...
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How To Not Suck… At Borrowing For College
(photo: joelgoodman)(This is Part Two of a two-part feature on paying for an education. Last week’s HTNS column focused on the best way to save up for college.) With the rising cost of college tuition,...
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51 Groups Call On President To Not Let For-Profit Colleges Weaken “Gainful...
(afagen)Last summer, the Dept. of Education began the process of reviewing a new rule aimed at those educational institutions that failed to demonstrate their students could find gainful employment in...
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Millennials Who Chose Not To Attend College Are More Likely To Live In...
(afagen)The always rising cost of tuition and the number of students graduating college with significant debt might be enough to turn some away from getting a college education. But a new study by the...
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