Federal Student Loans: What Do They Pay For
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Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday May 02, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loan Interest Rates to Rise With 10-Year Treasury Note: College students in the U.S. who take out federal loans are likely to see interest rates jump — potentially by a percentage point or more — in the coming academic year. Last year, the government began to peg rates on most student loans to the Treasury 10-year note. Stafford loans, the most widely borrowed, carried an undergraduate rate of 3.86 percent for the 2013-2014 school year. In the past three months, the 10-year yield has traded 0.80 to 1 percentage point higher than a year ago, which means education borrowing costs may rise. […]
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday April 26, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loans Can Suddenly Come Due When Co-Signers Die, a Report Finds: For students who borrow on the private market to pay for school, the death of a parent [...]
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday March 21, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Students should question the risk, terms of dangerous private loans: College is an exceptional time in our lives when we can partake in activities that society otherwise frowns upon, such as drinking Keystone beer and playing hacky sack in public. One potentially ruinous side effect of pursuing a higher education, though, is taking out the loans to pay for it. […]
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday March 14, 2014 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loan Borrowers Win As Education Department Reverses Course: Borrowers with federal student loans may now access the U.S. government's latest rankings of loan specialists after the Department of Education on Tuesday abruptly reversed its temporary ban on providing customer service scores. […]
Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday October 4, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Student-Loan Curbs Leave Black Schools in Peril: The President of Howard University, one of the nation's elite historically black schools, stepped down this week, highlighting the deep uncertainty black colleges are facing in the wake of new restrictions on loans on which many of their students depend. […]