Friday 28 October 2011

Financial Aid News

Financial Aid News

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How Much Student-Loan Debt Is Too Much?

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"It used to be that Americans had too much debt. Now they don't have enough. The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that 'household thrift' is a key reason the economic recovery has been...

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Ignore the Hype: Federal Student Loans Aren't Profitable for the Government

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"This week everyone has been talking about student loans. The Obama administration announced some minor changes to the Direct Loan program," Jason Delisle writes in the New America Foundation's...

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Student Loan Problems – Help to Avoid Default

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"According to the Institute for Higher Education Policy, for every one borrower who defaults, two more fall behind on payment by 60 days or more and as a result, they face damaged credit and higher...

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White House Help on College Loans Isn't So Much

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"Around the same time the College Board was releasing a report showing that the average tuition at a four-year public college rose 8.3 percent last year, President Obama was in Denver on Wednesday...

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Counseling Parents, With Some Help From a New Calculator

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"John Gudvangen has given many financial-aid presentations over his career. But when he spoke at a recent open house at Wesleyan University, something was different. For the first time, some parents...

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Decoding the Language of Financial Aid

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"Sometimes it seems like financial-aid administrators have their own language," Beckie Supiano writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education's Head Count blog. "To make matters worse, words that mean...

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Student Loans in America: Nope, Just Debt

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"In late 1965, President Lyndon Johnson stood in the modest gymnasium of what had once been the tiny teaching college he attended in Texas and announced a programme to promote education,"...

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Bloggers Debate Obama's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"Conservative bloggers took President Barack Obama to school Thursday for his new student loan program, criticizing him for circumventing Congress to push an ill-conceived plan, while liberals online...

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Obama's Student-Loan Plan Scores Political Points but Offers Limited Relief

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"With the nation's student-loan debt approaching $1-trillion, and default rates at their highest level in a decade, President Obama is taking modest steps to ease students' debt burdens,"...

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Limiting (Some) Loans

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:00 PM PDT

"Under a financial aid 'experiment' announced Thursday, some community colleges and for-profit institutions will be able to fulfill a long-held desire: limiting the amount their students can borrow...

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