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Forbes

The Student Loan Crisis Is Crippling America's Families -- Is The Economy Next?
Forbes
With student loan debt now topping US credit card debt and few or no options available for distressed borrowers (including parents who co-signed and now face the loss of nest eggs, retirement homes and other assets), America faces the very real ...
Student loans the 'next debt bomb' for US, attorneys warnInvestmentNews
Memphis Rep. Steve Cohen pushes bill to ease student loan burdenMemphis Commercial Appeal
Student debt pushing more people toward bankruptcy, lawyers sayLos Angeles Times
Investor's Business Daily -MarketWatch (press release) -Providence Eyewitness News
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Bloomberg

Auto and Student Loans Drive Borrowing Surge
Wall Street Journal
Household borrowing through credit cards, car loans, student loans and other installment debt—which excludes mortgages—rose at a seasonally adjusted 9.3% annual rate in December, following a 9.9% rise in November, the Fed said Tuesday.
Consumer credit surges in DecemberMarketWatch
US sees jump in consumer borrowingTurkish Press
US sees jump in consumer borrowing for DecemberStraits Times
Global Economic Intersection
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Student loans may launch for RTC's aerospace training
PNW Local News
By Maida Suljevic For students enrolled in aerospace-industry courses at Renton Technical College, a bill proposed in the Legislature to extend the Aerospace Training Student Loan Program (ALP), if passed, could alleviate some of the stress of paying ...

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Student loan bill 'a disaster'
Stuff.co.nz
A woman involved with the student loan scheme since it began say proposed changes to it are nothing more than "tinkering around the edges". Lenore Bamfield, a recently retired official, said the Government was "clearly scrambling around to find every ...
Women's Council support stricter student loan rulesNew Zealand Herald
Student loan bill won't stop rorting of systemNZ City

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Albuquerque Journal (subscription)

Scholarship, student loan applications now available at Rep. Mirabito's Office
NorthcentralPa.com
COM For Pennsylvania students graduating this spring and planning to head off to college in the fall there are several important deadlines approaching for scholarships and student aid. Read below for more information on the House of Representatives ...
FAFSA Much Less Painful Than Subprime School LoansAlbuquerque Journal (subscription)
Bucks County Community College forum gives tips on financial aidMontgomery Newspapers
FAFSA offers more for students' early completionBG News

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ABC Action News

Locals applaud student loan changes
UI The Daily Iowan
BY KRISTEN EAST | FEBRUARY 07, 2012 7:20 AM University of Iowa student leaders probably won't take action following a recent change in Sallie Mae's forbearance policies. Sallie Mae — the nation's largest distributor of private student loans — changed ...
Sallie Mae to start applying unemployment forbearance fees to loans after ...ABC Action News
Sallie Mae Agrees To Stop Pocketing Forbearance "Good Faith Deposit ...The Consumerist
Graduate takes on debt problemLSU The Reveille
Southside Pride -Pekin Daily Times -The News Journal
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As Bankruptcy from Student Loans Rise, Community Colleges Seen as Low Cost ...
Policyshop (blog)
The pressure for community colleges to deliver more value to middle-income students will only continue to grow as college costs rise and high levels of student loan debt becomes a difficult and complicated burden. This afternoon, the National ...

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Minnesota Daily

Obama looks to up student loans
Minnesota Daily
The Perkins Loan budget would increase from $1 billion to $8 billion and, according to the plan, would not be an additional cost to taxpayers. Perkins Loans are low-interest loans provided to low-income students. In a Jan. 27 speech at the University ...
As Cost of College Soars, Students Consider OptionsLoanSafe
Obama College-Cost Plan Aims to Go Beyond AccessEducation Week News
Obama tuition policy could 'dilute' quality of educationThe University of Alabama Crimson White
Red and Black -Toledo Blade -Knoxville News Sentinel
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Interest on student loans no deterrent, minister says
Victoria Times Colonist
By Rob Shaw, Times Colonist February 7, 2012 BC could eliminate interest rates on student loans at a cost of $34 million a year, but the minister responsible says it wouldn't help students gain access to a post-secondary education.



Ex student convicted of obtaining Sallie Mae loans by fraud
Monroe News Star
US Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced Tuesday that Anthony Haywood Gregory II, 27, of Ruston, was has been sentenced to five years probation in connection with fraudulently obtaining student loans. Gregory, who was sentenced Monday, ...


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