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As more students balk at the debt loads they face after graduation, some colleges are offering an alternative: We'll pay your tuition if you offer us a percentage of your future salary.
--But There Are Other Promising Paths
As trends go, the chart of the history of the U.S. government's borrowing to fund student loans looks like an ugly hockey stick,
You deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.
You deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.
You deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.
You deserve a realistic account of the economy you're joining.
There are various reasons for surging education costs, but the primary one is the expansion of university administration in recent decades.
We've all seen the headlines: the cost of university education in the United States has become completely debilitating. And student debt keeps rising to record high levels.
The government is using increasingly hostile tactics and illogical methods to get student loans repaid.
student loan racket
All the rage today on the American Left is "free" everything -- healthcare, subsidies, "basic income," and of course, healthcare.
The Student Loan Debt and Housing Report 2017 by the National Association of Realtors and the nonprofit group American Student Assistance shows the obvious: Student debt delays household formation, home buying, and saving.
August is the month when parents bid farewell to not only their college-bound youngsters but also a sizable chunk of cash for tuition.
Who would have expected that today's otherwise boring monthly consumer credit report would be the day's most exciting event.
This whopper of a clerical error may erase millions in student loan obligations.
The Looming Last Gasp of Indoctrination?
but she'll be paying for it for the rest of her life... She racked up more than $150,000 in student loan debt to become a nurse. The average nurse in the U.S. earns $5,660 per month. After taxes and living expenses, Jackie barely scrapes by.
Countless high school students across the northern hemisphere are ceremoniously gliding their tassels from one side of their caps to the other and accepting a rolled-up piece of paper to commemorate the past four years of their lives.
Courtesy of Sov Man's Simon Black, here are several of the most bizarre legal anecdotes to take place in the US and around the globe over the past week, staring with a bill currently making its way through Congress, which is seeking to wipe out over
Your government at work with your tax dollars.
Want to get rich? Start out by going $100,000 in debt.
Student loan lenders are skimming tens of billions in profits guaranteed by the taxpayers.
One month after we, and every other financial media, reported that US credit card debt had risen back over $1 trillion for the first time since January 2017....
Allowing Student-Debt-Laden Millennials To Buy A Home
In 1988, a bank called Guardian Savings and Loan made financial history by issuing the first ever "subprime" mortgage bond.
Last week we noted a survey from LendEDU which found that 31% of college co-eds spend at least some portion of their student loan debt proceeds to fund week-long hedonistic, binge drinking trips to Cancun and Daytona Beach for spring break.
Last week we noted a survey from LendEDU which found that 31% of college co-eds spend at least some portion of their student loan debt proceeds to fund week-long hedonistic, binge drinking trips to Cancun and Daytona Beach for spring break.
The growth of student loans drove or a substantial increase in household debt last year, say experts.
America's Problem with Student Loans Is Much Bigger Than Anybody Realized
