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The skinny on student loans
More students are relying on loans to help finance their bachelor's degree, and the amount they're borrowing is getting a lot steeper too.
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Student Loans Could Be the Next Housing Bubble: Robert Reich
Could the next bubble to burst be student loans? The burden is big: U.S. college students borrowed $117 billion in federal student loans last year, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported earlier this year that debt from student loans exceeds $1 trillion, surpassing credit card debt for the first time. Tuition and fees at [...]
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Big Government, Congressman Ryan, and Student Loans
Allan Collinge has appeared here several times with posts on the student loan crisis. He just sent me a new contribution with his commentary on the Republican budget proposal as it relates to student loans. I don?t agree with his analysis, but if I had to agree with all of my guest posters all of ...
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Student Loans For Kindergarten?!
There is an increase in the number of parents taking on loans to finance their children's education long, long before college – the K-12 years!
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Britons turn to payday loans amid downturn
Young British administrator Steve Perry had never heard of payday loans when, three years ago, he wondered how to get the cash to spend a weekend away with friends.
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Kindergarten Loans Are a Sad Reality of Our Time
Following Tuesday's news that wealthy parents are being targeted for more money from their kids' expensive private schools comes a very different, but equally terrifying, tale: Some parents are taking out loans to pay for their children's educations. That's been happening for years, you say? Well, yes. Except now the loans are being taken out for high school educations—and even kindergarten ...
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Consumers pay car loans, credit cards ahead of mortgages
The latest update to the TransUnion Payment Hierarchy Study sheds new light on how consumers prioritize their payments when money is running short. The credit management bureau found that both mortgage and credit card payments take a backseat to those for auto loans, and that of the three, mortgage payments are still at the bottom of the priority list. The study's authors speculate declining ...
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Student loans
More students are relying on loans to help finance their bachelor's degree, and the amount they're borrowing is getting a lot steeper too.Our roundup of advice -- insider secrets from college counselors, ...
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