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Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: An Examination of Unhappy Doctors

2012-05-30T13:40:18Z

The last few years have seen radical changes in the health care system. I suspect that many doctors report unhappiness because these changes mean that many doctors' careers do not live up to their expectations.

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Sketchy Partnerships Make College Aid More Expensive For Students

2012-05-30T09:08:52Z

WASHINGTON -- It took Mario Parker-Milligan less than a semester to decide that he was paying too many fees to Higher One, the company hired by his co...

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Credit.com: 7 Things You Can Do to Cut Your Student Debt Load Now

2012-05-29T19:35:06Z

People who return to school after age 40 have fewer years of employment to help repay expensive school loans, and they also need to be setting money aside for retirement. One way to compete is to minimize your costs from the outset.

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Rich Williams: There is No 'A' for Effort on Student Loan Interest Rates

2012-05-29T12:24:25Z

This debate is not about partisan gamesmanship in Washington but about a potential post-graduation debt increase of $1,000 for every year a subsidized Stafford loan borrower is in school.

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Jeff A. Katz: Class of 2012: Get Uncomfortable

2012-05-27T16:13:30Z

After you walk across the stage and accept your diploma, there is a question you need to keep in mind and an answer for yourself when things get rough (and they will): What great things have come from being comfortable?

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Yvette Kantrow: The Real Debt of College Education

2012-05-25T16:49:25Z

It's hard to turn around these days without bumping into a story bemoaning, debating, defending or decrying the skyrocketing costs of higher education.

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Jonas Mafirsu: There Is a Warm Breeze Blowing in From the North. It's Comforting

2012-05-25T13:41:38Z

The ubiquity of social networking and citizen journalism has made mass media repression more and more of a moot point.

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Student Debt Forgiven For Surprising Reason

2012-05-24T14:33:59Z

Even if you go bankrupt, it's nearly impossible to shake off your student loans.

But a lawyer for a former law student trying to "discharge," or ob...

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Alex Kenjeev, Law School Grad, Pays Off $114,000 Student Loan Balance In Cash

2012-05-24T11:08:42Z

For many law school graduates, it takes over a decade of steady monthly payments by check or automatic bank withdrawals to pay off student loans.

N...

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10 Medical Schools That Leave You VERY Deep In Debt

2012-05-24T09:43:29Z

Is $229,132 in student debt worth it?

This is the question students must answer when they contemplate attending West Virginia School of Osteopathic...

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About 400 Arrested In Tuition Protest

2012-05-24T09:31:07Z

MONTREAL — Nearly 700 people were arrested Wednesday night after a protest over higher university tuition in Quebec erupted into another night o...

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Terry Connelly: To Rein-in Student Loan Debt, Rein-in For-Profit Colleges

2012-05-23T17:15:17Z

For-profit colleges have been able to seize the opportunity to marry Internet classes with federal student aid to serve this degree-hungry population: the many thousands of students whose work and life schedules don't fit the "academic calendar.

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Higher One, Student Financial Aid Company, Under Fire For Charging Students Excessive Fees

2012-05-09T17:14:38Z

As student loan debt soars, so do profits at a little-known company that manages students' financial aid disbursements for some of the nation's larges...

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Robert Reich: The Commencement Address That Won't Be Given

2012-05-18T15:46:17Z

Members of the Class of 2012, as a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today. You're f*cked.

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Adam Levin: Crowdsourcing the Student Loan Mess

2012-05-18T12:34:36Z

For the record, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the Hitler Youth. I point this out because based on the comments to my last few column...

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Credit.com: How I'm Repaying $120,000 in Student Loans

2012-05-16T21:10:34Z

Six months after graduation, my grace period will end, and I will have to start repaying more than $1,000 per month. Here is my strategy for repayment.

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How To Pay Off $90,000 Student Debt In 7 Months

2012-05-16T17:20:36Z

Almost two years after graduating from the Harvard Business School, Joe Mihalic seemed to be living the life. With a six-figure job at Dell in Austin,...

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Maura Kastberg: The Student Loan Debate

2012-05-16T18:15:08Z

With college debt soaring over a trillion dollars, parents and students are up in arms. It's no wonder why California students have started demonstrating and the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken up the banner too.

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Jennifer Mishory: $1,000,000,000,000: How Did We Get Here?

2012-05-16T15:28:59Z

Despite the trajectory of debt, this generation of college graduates holds better economic prospects than their non-college peers, but with the drag of debt, interest, and the unforgiving lenders holding them back for decades to come.

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Dr. Bonnie Snyder: Forget Driver's Licenses: Student Loan Debt Is the New Teen Rite of Passage

2012-05-15T16:26:24Z

There's no silver bullet, aside from winning the lottery, but here are some ways to limit the student debt load in your family.

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

2012-05-15T08:47:31Z

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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Ellen Brown: Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts

2012-05-15T10:36:42Z

U.S. taxpayers now pay nearly half a trillion dollars annually to finance our federal debt. By financing the debt itself rather than paying interest to private parties, the government could divert what it would have paid in interest into tuition, jobs, infrastructure and social services.

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Want To Avoid Student Debt? Think Twice About State Schools

2012-05-14T18:13:31Z

Student debt weighing on your mind? You might be surprised about where the worst of it comes from.

A recent Reuters analysis of student debt at var...

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Credit.com: 5 Credit Card Rules for New Grads

2012-05-14T18:46:04Z

If you just graduated, you might be looking forward to managing money on your own. Certainly, it's deliciously liberating. But it can also be tricky.

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Rick Newman: Too Much Student Debt? Blame Your Parents

2012-05-14T14:44:22Z

Education is an important asset that's valuable at the right price, but not at any price.

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