Thanks for nothing, college!
The studies extolling college's virtues are outdated and misguided. Here's what's really happening to Millennials
Sunday, Jun 30, 2013 2:30 PM UTC 342Politics College, College tuition
student loans
Politics College, College tuition
Senate nixes both parties’ student loan plans
Interest rates are set to double July 1
Thursday, Jun 6, 2013 9:16 PM UTCAll Salon Associated Press, student loans
Your student loan isn’t really a loan
You can't refinance, or get rid of the debt through bankruptcy. Here's how it's even more of a sham than you know
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013 11:45 AM UTC 305Business Student Loan Debt
Obama: Congress must act to keep student loan rates from ballooning
“If Congress doesn’t act by July 1, federal student loan rates are set to double," the president said on Friday
Friday, May 31, 2013 2:35 PM UTCLife student loans, Student Debt
My crushing student debt
I didn't think twice about taking out a five-figure loan. Then I graduated with no money -- and no job prospects
Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:00 PM UTC 157Life Life stories, College, University
Elizabeth Warren Q&A: Students “deserve the same break that big banks get”
The senator tells Salon about plan to lower student loan rates -- to match same rate banks pay to borrow from Fed
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:26 PM UTC 34Business Salon, interview
Austerity never works: Deficit hawks are amoral — and wrong
The 1 percent and the financial class caused the Great Recession. So why do we keep allowing them to shape policy?
Sunday, May 5, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 120Business Austerity, Great Recession
Student loans: The next housing bubble
College students accrue hundreds of thousands in debt with little hope of paying it back. It's a cruel game
Monday, Feb 4, 2013 6:00 PM UTC 77News student loans, Debt, law school
John Roberts bankrupts law students
The Supreme Court justice is paid thousands to "teach" in Europe -- and his law students are footing the bill
Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 12:45 PM UTC 57Politics Supreme Court, John Roberts
Mitt: Obama bribed voters
The failed candidate says the president's base was motivated by "gifts" from the government
Wednesday, Nov 14, 2012 10:56 PM UTC 79News student loans, Obamacare
Why student loans are just like mortgages
It's not just homeowners anymore. Big borrowing and zero oversight has left students drowning in debt
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 1:01 PM UTC 14Politics Mortgage Crisis, Debt, ProPublica
Student loan mimics subprime mortgage industry
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report shows all too familiar complaints from besieged borrowers
Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 8:12 PM UTCLife student loans
Why are student financial aid letters so confusing?
If you're feeling baffled, you're not alone. And now members of Congress are trying to do something about it
Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012 6:43 PM UTCPolitics ProPublica, student loans
Are student loans the new subprime mortgages?
How the government is saddling parents with tuition-related debt they can't pay -- and could never afford
Sunday, Oct 7, 2012 2:00 PM UTCBusiness Student Debt, NYU, student loans
Four ways banks have ruined higher education
Colleges and universities are padding their bottom lines -- and the American public is footing the bill
Thursday, Oct 4, 2012 4:41 PM UTCPolitics Department of Education
California education’s painful decline
The state starved its schools of cash. Now its once vaunted public education system is dying a slow death
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2012 6:43 PM UTC 22Business Santa Cruz, Student Debt
Romney-Ryan Medicare: No love for students, seniors
Shifting health care costs onto the people who can't afford them breaks a social compact that all Americans rely on
Saturday, Sep 22, 2012 3:00 PM UTC 13Politics Students, Medicare, Seniors
Stop calling student loans “financial aid”
Students who take out loans aren't receiving special favors. They're making a financial transaction like any other
Saturday, Sep 15, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 101Politics Next New Deal
Quote of the day
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett thinks student loans are the first step toward the Holocaust
Thursday, Sep 6, 2012 10:22 PM UTC 32News Roscoe Bartlett
GOP’s newest attack on student loans
The platform calls for repealing student loan reform so private lenders can get a bigger piece of the pie
Saturday, Sep 1, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 40Politics Next New Deal
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