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Shahien Nasiripour

New Bill Would Jumpstart Student Loan Refinancings

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
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Debtors with high interest rates on their federal student loans would refinance into cheaper loans under proposed legislation to be unveiled this week...

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What Can I Do About My Overwhelming Student Loan Debt?

Steve Rhode | Posted 05.14.2013 | Business
Read More: Private Student Loans, Get Out of Debt Get Out of Student Loan Debt, Sallie Mae, Subsidized Student Loans, Givernment Student Loans, Business News
Steve Rhode

Huffington Post Reader Question Dear Steve, I borrowed about 130,000 for my education.. :( I don't know why it was so much, but I did study aboard, ...

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Twitter Hates Sallie Mae

The Huffington Post | Jermaine Spradley | Posted 05.13.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Sallie Mae Anniversary Twitter, Sallie Mae, Bv-Life, Sallie Mae Twitter, Sallie Mae 40th Anniversary, Black Voices News

A relatively innocuous tweet by student loan giant Sallie Mae caused an eruption of disdain and hate on Twitter Monday. The nation's leading educa...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Financial Docs Show Universities Are Huge Investors In Student Loan Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics
Read More: Sallie Mae Student Loans, Richard Cordray, Sallie Mae Pension Funds, Video, Sallie Mae Profit, Sallie Mae Student Debt, Student Debt, Sallie Mae Harvard, Slm Corp, Sallie Mae, Sallie Mae Interest Rates, Student Debt Relief, Student Loans, Politics News

University endowments and teachers’ pension funds are among big investors in Sallie Mae, the private lender that has been generating enormous profit...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Consumer Agency Calls For Student Debt Relief

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.08.2013 | Business
Read More: Student Loans Rohit Chopra, Richard Cordray, Cfpb Student Loans, Elizabeth-Warren-Student-Loans, Cfpb Student Debt, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Sfpb Student Debt Relief, Cfpb, Rohit Chopra, Sallie Mae, Business News

Households struggling under the weight of student debt burdens moved one step closer to a lifeline Wednesday, after the federal consumer regulator sug...

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Will I Ever Get My Money from the Sallie Mae Class Action Lawsuit? -- Vicki

Steve Rhode | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business
Read More: Sallie Mae, Student Loan Class Action, Class Action, Business News
Steve Rhode

Question "Dear Steve, I have student loans with Sallie Mae and was notified of a Class Action suit against them because of excessive cell phone call...

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I Don't Want to Grow up

Kate Gale | Posted 04.25.2013 | College
Read More: Sallie Mae, Having Babies After Forty, I Don?T Want to Grow Up, Going Back to School, College News
Kate Gale

We Americans want everything: Empire without consequences. Food without fat. School without debt. Class without style. We need to wake up and think about consequences and grow a conscience, but in the meantime, I'm still working on my student loans.

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Calling Out the Corporate Charade

Sarita Gupta | Posted 04.17.2013 | Business
Read More: 1 Percent, 99 Percent, Walmart, Bank of America, Shareholders, Executive Pay, Workers, Corporate Profits, 99 Percent Spring, Wells Fargo, Ceos, Tax Loopholes, Sallie Mae, Peabody Energy, Shareholder Spring, Business News
Sarita Gupta

Shareholder season is upon us, marking the beginning of another round of corporate America's dog-and-pony shows held to placate their cronies and pat each other on the back for another profitable year.

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How to Fix the Student Loan Crisis (for Real This Time)

Adam Levin | Posted 02.11.2013 | Home
Read More: 2005-Bankruptcy-Law, Tom Petri, College, Paying for College, Wells Fargo, Public Universities, Student Loan Crisis, Bankruptcy Reform, Sallie Mae, Higher Education, Education Funding, Student Loans, Cost of College, Home News
Adam Levin

It's time to return student loans to the discipline of the free market. Only then can tomorrow's graduates enjoy the futures they've been promised.

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Catherine New

Student Loan Servicing Complaints Are 'Early Warning'

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 10.16.2012 | Home
Read More: Student Loan Debts, Complaints, Billing Issues, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Student Loan Servicing, Sallie Mae, Refinancing, Student Loans, Repayment, Video, Home News

The private student loan industry smells a lot like the subprime mortgage industry: Dead ends, runarounds and few live customer service representative...

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Mother Stuck With Huge Tax Bill For Dead Son's Student Debt

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 09.26.2012 | College
Read More: Video, Irs Student Loans, Regina Friend, Roswell Friend, Internal Revenue Service, Regina Friend Son's Death, Majoring in Debt, Tax Bill, Sallie Mae, Student Loans Forgiven, Student Loans, Key Bank, College News

A mother in Maryland is stuck with a $14,000 tax bill from the Internal Revenue Service for her deceased son's student loans. Roswell Friend, a Tem...

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America's Student Debt Crisis

Kyle McCarthy | Posted 10.14.2012 | College
Read More: Student Loan Crisis, Student Debt Crisis, College Costs, Student Loans, Student Debt, Paying for College, Cost of College, Youlobby, Sallie Mae, College News
Kyle McCarthy

At a time when funding for education is being slashed at all levels, the lenders are flush with cash as our leaders stand idly by, refusing to do anything about this ever-growing problem.

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It's The Housing Crisis All Over Again

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 09.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Subprime Lending, Student Debt, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Cfpb, Private Student Loans, Sallie Mae, Student Loans, Student Loan Debt, Home News

WASHINGTON — Risky lending caused private student loan debt to balloon in the past decade, leaving many Americans struggling to pay off loans th...

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Dorm Rooms Fall Victim To Rising College Costs

Reuters | Posted 09.15.2012 | Home
Read More: College Loans, College Affordability, College Costs, Paying for College, Millennials, Reuters, Living at Home, Sallie Mae, Student Loans, Home News

By Beth Pinsker Gladstone NEW YORK, July 16 (Reuters) - Even wealthy families are scrambling to cover rising college costs by borrowin...

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Why You Shouldn't Jump At Low Interest Rates

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 08.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Sallie Mae Student Loans, Student Loan Interest Rates, Interest Rates, Private Student Loans, Sallie Mae, Student Loans, Cost of College, Home News

NEW YORK — For college-bound students, the easy money seems to be everywhere. The website for Discover's student loans says it can help: "Cover...

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An Open Letter to the CEO of Sallie Mae

Dina Gachman | Posted 08.06.2012 | College
Read More: Rich People, Sallie Mae, Interest Rates, College, Student Loans, Economy, Comedy, Economic Crisis, Satire, College News
Dina Gachman

I'm concerned for your well being as one of the "rich teams." I really mean it. It's just a simple scientific fact: people with too much wealth go crazy and lose their minds.

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Under Media Pressure, Sallie Mae Forgives Dead Woman's Loan

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 08.08.2012 | Home
Read More: Video, Student Debt Stories, Co-Signer, Amanda Greenhalgh, Student-Debt-Averages, Student Debt, Dead Student Debt, Sallie Mae, Student Loans, Christopher Bryski, Home News

Even death is not enough to shake off student loan debt. One New Jersey family learned this in the most awful way imaginable. When Amanda Greenhal...

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99% Spring Has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County

Mary Bottari | Posted 06.30.2012 | Business
Read More: Bank Protests, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, Verizon Wireless, Bank of America, Sallie Mae, Wal-Mart, Wisconsin Protests, Move Your Money, 99 Percent Spring, , We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy, Occupy Movement, Business News
Mary Bottari

The goal: to wrest control of our democracy back from the robber barons and CEOs that systematically block any effort to create an economy and a body politic that serves the needs of the vast majority of Americans and not the elite few.

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Catherine New

It's Decision Day For High School Seniors

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 04.30.2012 | Home
Read More: Financial Preparation, Scholarships, College Loans, College, Student Debt, High School, Sallie Mae, College Debt, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Stafford Loans, Home News

Taylor Lee, 18, can't decide where to go to college. But by Tuesday she must make a final choice between the University of Miami, a private school...

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Saki Knafo

Occupy, Obama Speak Out As National Student Loan Debt Hits $1 Trillion

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.25.2012 | Home
Read More: Hr-4170, Tuition, Student Debt, Occupy Student Debt, Student Debt Trillion, Student Loans, Occupy Movement, Obama Loans, Obama Student Debt, Student Debt Crisis, College Loans, Occupy Wall Street, Sallie Mae, Occupy, College Debt, 1tday, Occupy Colleges, Home News

Among the couple hundred protesters who gathered in Union Square Wednesday then marched down Broadway, beating drums and holding signs, one wore a bla...

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Zach Carter

Student Loan Reform Fight Broader For Obama Than Interest Rate Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.25.2012 | Politics
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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Even After Bankruptcy, You Can't Get Rid Of Student Debt

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 04.25.2012 | Home
Read More: Debt, Video, Education, College Loans, Bankruptcy, Student Loan Debt Tips, College, Student Debt, Sallie Mae, Student Loans, Student Loan Debt, Barack Obama, Home News

-- The misfortunes that brought schoolteachers Devin and Sarah Stang and their four young children to bankruptcy – and the loss of their house ...

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The Things We Do for... Rent Money

Dina Gachman | Posted 06.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Sallie Mae, Jobs, Rent Money, Silly Jobs, Entrepreneurship, Student Loans, Economy, Great Recession, Home News
Dina Gachman

Most of us have fantasized about winning the lotto or creating the next Angry Birds or Pet Rock so we can dump a Louis Vuitton bag of cash on the lawn of Sallie Mae headquarters and pay off our student loans, then set sail on a yacht to celebrate.

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The High Cost of Nostalgia

Dina Gachman | Posted 05.27.2012 | Home
Read More: Internships, Job Market, Jobless Rate, 80s Nostalgia, Economy, Health Insurance, Sallie Mae, Nostalgia, Student Loans, Home News
Dina Gachman

This brand of nostalgia feels much more real than the fleeting daydream of recess, as if twenty-two year olds truly do want to crawl back into their TVs and live safely tucked inside their favorite 80s sitcoms forever.

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Deadbeat Nation: Why the Public Should Cut Off Wall Street's Credit

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.26.2012 | Politics
Read More: Debt, Credit Cards, Student Loans, Sallie Mae, College Loans, Loans, Credit Card Debt, College Debt, Student Loan Debt, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The real debt in this nation is the one that bankers owe the rest of the country. And as long as our politicians are allowed to rescue banks while ignoring consumers, it's a debt that will continue to go unpaid. And it will continue to grow.

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