Monday, May 28, 2012

Student loans

  • "Affordable" loans of around £2,500 and business training will be offered to young people aged between 18 and 24 who have a "viable" business plan, the prime minister will announce on Monday.
  • (Daily Telegraph)
  • Discover Student Loans, one of the largest originators of private student loans in the United States, announced today new fixed-rate loans for undergraduate and graduate students with rates as low as 6.79 percent APR.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • Education Secretary Arne Duncan says student loans don't push up tuition, but of course they do, much like housing prices were pushed up by banks giving loans to people who could not afford the mortgages.
  • (Burlington County Times)
  • U.S.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • With interest rates on certain student loans set to double on July 1, the Senate channeled its inner college student by pulling the legislative equivalent of picking up an Xbox controller or logging into Facebook.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • Even if you go bankrupt, its nearly impossible to shake off your student loans. But a lawyer for a former law student trying to discharge, or obtain forgiveness, for more than $300,000 in student loan debt recently found a way.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • INDIANAPOLIS — The interest Hoosier students pay on their federal Stafford college loans should be returned as a credit that lowers their Indiana income taxes, state Senate hopeful Terry White says.
  • (Evansville Courier-Press)
  • This happens because lenders do not like when people pay late or do not pay at all. However, despite this tough competition, Sallie Mae student loans are considered to be the first choice of many students.
  • (Salon)
  • Will the DKos lawyers please take a look.
  • (DAILY KOS)

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