Student Lending

Zach Carter

Student Loan Reform Fight Broader For Obama Than Interest Rate Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Interest Rates, Supreme Court, Poverty, Economy, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Obama, Democrats, Student Lending, Student Loans, Stafford Loans, Politics, Deficit, Video, Education, Obamacare, 2012 Election, Health Care Reform, Sallie Mae, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Pell Grants, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, congressional Democrats announced plans to introduce legislation that would extend the current low interest rates on governm...

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Tyler Kingkade

Moody's Analytics Warns: Student Debt May Be The Next Financial Bubble To Burst

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: College Students, Debt, Debt Ceiling, Moody's Analytics, Student Debt, Credit Card, Financial Bubble, Student Loans, Student Lending, Moody's, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Record borrowing by college students who are graduating without jobs could lead to major problems in the nation's economy, according to ...

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College Debt: Who's To Blame For Students' Subprime Loans?

nytimes.com | Rob Leiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: College Debt, Student Lending, Student Loans, Subprime Lending, College, Citigroup, Business News

So in an eerie echo of the mortgage crisis, tens of thousands of people like Ms. Munna are facing a reckoning. They and their families made borrowing ...

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Student Loan Reform: Seven Ways It May Change Your Life (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Loan Changes, Student Debt, Student Loan Reform, How Student Loans Work, Slidepollajax, Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, Student Loan Industry, Student Lending, Student Loans, College News

The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which President Barack Obama signed off on in March, took effect July 1. The law incurs wide...

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Faces Of Vittana

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Microlending Developing Countries, Students Helping Students, Student Microfinance, Slideshow, Microfinance, College, College Developing Countries, Student Microlending, Kushal Chakrabarti, Vittana, Student Lending, Student Loans, Microfinance Developing World, College News

In developing countries, college can cost several hundred dollars per year -- and yet, if you don't have the money to go, you won't. There's no such t...

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Student Lending Changes: Banks On Verge Of Losing Student Loan Business

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Loans, Student Lending, Sallie Mae, Pell Grants, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Scott Brown, Business News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's health care success has an intended side effect: Attached to the fast-track package of health care fixes i...

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Weekly Audit: After Health Care, the Economy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Wilkinson, CEO Pay, The American Prospect, Jobs Bill, Rebecca Delaney, Pedro De La Torre III, Financial Reform, Christopher Hayes, Brooke Jarvis, Jobs, Obama, Chris Dodd, The Nation, YES! Magazine, Student Loans, Heather McGhee, Alternet, Campus Progress, Wall Street Reform, Unemployment, Cfpa, Alexander Zaitchik, Sallie Mae, Financial Crisis, Student Lending, Economic Inequality, Inequality, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger Now that health care reform has finally been enacted, a host of critical economic issues are taking center st...

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Abuses In Student Debt Industry: Help Us Investigate

Huffington Post Investigative Fund--Stabile Partnership | Ben Protess | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hufington Post Investigative Fund, Predatory Lending, Student Debt, Student Debt Industry, Student Debt Abuses, College Debt, Student Lending, Business News

We at the Investigative Fund are partnering with a team of graduate students at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University...

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How Nonprofits Won Special Treatment In Student Lending Bill

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Sasha Chavkin, Ryan Tracy and Mar Cabra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Education, Student Debt, Nonprofits, Education Finance Council, Obama Administration, Sallie Mae, College Debt, Hufffund, Student Lending, Student Loans, Efc, Citigroup, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

This is the first in a series of articles on student lending reported in partnership with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia ...

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