Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday July 12, 2013 Student Loan News:  1. Work resumes after student loan bill fails:  The defeat of a student loan bill in the Senate on Wednesday clears the way for fresh negotiations to restore lower rates, but lawmakers are racing the clock before millions of students return to campus next month to find borrowing terms twice as high as when school let out. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday July 5, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Declare Independence From Your Student Loans:  When it comes to declaring independence from debt, a lot of us are under the thumb of the same dictator: student loans. In fact, according to a recent report from the Urban Institute, one in five adults over the age of 20 are carrying student loan debt — and more than half of them are worried about how they're going to pay it off. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday June 28, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Regulators seek flexibility from private student loan lenders:  Regulators on Tuesday called on private student loan lenders to offer more flexible repayment terms to borrowers at a time when many are struggling to pay off their debt. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, federal regulators said private student loans constitute a small portion of overall student debt, but many people are struggling to repay their loans and delinquency rates for such loans are high. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  May 17, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. The truth about student loans:  As I finish up my second year of life in the “real world,” more and more is being said about the dangers of student loans and how they are our nation’s next big financial crisis. This is both alarming and refreshing. Whenever I talked about student loan debt before, I felt guilty. Getting accepted to and going to college is still such a privilege to a good portion of the population, so why would I ever complain about how much it costs? It was my choice to attend a private liberal arts college, so I should accept the consequences and be quiet about it. That said, I do not want to complain, rather relay a sense of reality that was not clearly presented to me while I was at Knox, attending classes, studying in the library, going to the Gizmo, soaking up sun on Post Lawn and waiting eternally for Flunk Day. More Details: http://www.theknoxstudent.com/news/2013/05/15/the-truth-about-student-loans/ […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  May 10, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Used Wisely, Student Loans Can Improve Your Life:  Student loans changed my life, but in a different way than most. I started school at a community college in the Bay Area after going through a divorce and finding myself with custody of my two sons, 3 and 4. I was a full-time dad, and worked full-time while taking up to 20 units per semester at my local community college. I received subsidized daycare and dropped my boys there on the way to class, and picked them up on the way home. My mom would watch my boys when I went to work in the evenings as a waiter at a local steak house. I ran a window-cleaning service on weekends when I wasn't working at the restaurant, and I managed to avoid student loans for the first four years of college. View full story: http://news.yahoo.com/used-wisely-student-loans-improve-life-212500339.html […]