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Even Upper-Middle Class Americans Feel the Sting of Student Debt 12 Aug 2012 | 10:00 am
Student loans are quickly becoming the next big bubble that could pop sometime in the future – especially when even the richer members of our country are starting to squeal “uncle” when they realize j...
Canada’s Rural Medical Practitioners Get Loan Forgiveness; Nearly Half of Ours Graduate with Six-Digit Debt 7 Aug 2012 | 10:00 am
Canada’s government announced on August 5 that family doctors, nurses and nurse practitioners that choose to work in rural communities with populations of 50,000 or less will be eligible for partial s...
Should Student Loans be Abolished in the First Place? 23 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
In our previous post, we discussed a few points on why the government should not pull itself away from the student loan industry. Here is the other side of that argument: Grants are Enough to Cover ...
A Few Key Student Loan Statistics to Wrap Your Head Around 20 Jul 2012 | 11:36 am
OMB Watch, a nonprofit organization dedicated to transparency, accountability and democratic participation in government, has released list of statistics highlighting the progression of student loans ...
Your Student Loans Are Ripe for the “Political” Picking 15 Jul 2012 | 12:00 pm
Okay, so interest rate cuts for federal student loans were extended for one more year. This is undoubtedly a good thing for America’s students battered by a weak job market, but are the people respons...
The True Costs of a Watered-Down Education 8 Jul 2012 | 10:30 am
Steve Postrel, in a recent post on the StrategyProfs.net1, argues that the reason too many students seek degrees and get into debt is because high school just doesn’t offer the same quality of educati...
U.S. ED Data: For-Profit Colleges Worst in Preparing Students for Jobs 6 Jul 2012 | 10:00 am
If you ever thought that for-profit colleges viewed their students as walking cash-cows instead of potential workers, then you could probably be right. A recent study of 3,695 educational programs in...
Student Loans is More Expensive – Even if Interest Rates Stay at 3.4% 3 Jul 2012 | 11:00 am
Students, universities and politicians around America may be eagerly waiting for a ruling that will extend student loan interest rate cuts by one more year, but few people are paying attention to othe...
Slightly More Cash at Hand for Pell Grants in School Year ‘13-‘14 1 Jul 2012 | 11:00 am
An $85 increase in maximum Pell grant funding1 may not sound much when you need thousands of dollars to obtain a degree, but it’s better than nothing. Those that qualify for Pell grants will see the ...
Why the Government Must NOT Exit the Student Loan Industry 27 Jun 2012 | 11:00 am
A professor from Ohio University, Richard Vedder, suggests that the government get out of student loans altogether1 and just focus on more grants for low-income students. Sounds good on paper, but rel...
