Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  May 3, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. How to Get Out of Student Loan Debt:  More and more student loans are becoming the most problematic debt anyone can own. At some point in the past couple of decades, student loans went from a leg up to financial slavery. There is a lot of information out there about how to deal with troublesome student loan debt and payments. But I thought I'd put together the ultimate no-holds-barred guide on how to deal with student loan debt that becomes unaffordable. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  April 26, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Student Loan Borrowers Need Enforcement and Repayment Flexibility:  Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asked for public comments on private student loan debt affordability. By the April 8 deadline, more than 4,300 organizations and consumers answered. The volume of these requests suggests that the more than $1 trillion of debt already incurred by student loans is on the minds of many Americans. Clearly, consumers want repayments to be manageable, but there are also concerns for fairness and enforcement. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  April 19, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Young people with student loans shy from homeownership:   For the first time in at least a decade, 30-year-olds who didn't take on student loan debt in college are more likely to own homes than those who did, a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds. That switch may have long-term implications for both the rental and owner housing markets as college-educated but debt-laden young people put off (or forgo altogether) a transition from renting to buying. […]

Here are the best articles from around the web this week talking about student loans… For the week ending Friday  April 12, 2013 Student Loan News: 1. Digging Deeper Into Student Loan Debt:  As student loan debt rises at an alarming rate in the United States, some analysts fear that this trend could cause another economic crisis. From 2005 to 2012, student loan debt grew from $364 billion to $904 billion — an increase of 13.9 percent annually. In a recent Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City working paper, Kelly Edmiston, Lara Brooks, and Steven Shepelwich concluded that: […]