1 Real, 1 Fake, Both True
"Even at elite colleges, most students leave school without a strong enough grasp on how to totally revitalize the manufacturing, housing, automotive, and health care industries of an entire country."
Illustrating the Student Debt Crisis
Matt Phillips posted a series of charts at The Atlantic explaining the student debt crisis, but really, saying that college tuition has been rising stupidly fast pretty much sums it up.
30 Years Old And Just Getting By
Delinquent student loan payments are resulting in more colleges suing their students.
Get Your Student Loan Questions Answered
Rohit Chopra, the Assistant Director for Students at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is doing an AMA on student loans right now on Reddit. Ask him a question! Or lurk in the threads!
I Chose the Expensive Private University — And Got the Debt to Go With It
I assumed that finding a job in the industry would help me pay off the loans easily. I know my parents tried to talk with me about what this would mean in terms of debt, but being 17 and from a small town, I was dazzled by the prospect of NYU and, frankly, money in amounts over a couple thousand meant nothing to me. I had no frame of reference.
2 Ways To Talk About Student Loan Debt! It’s a Crisis! It’s Not! (IT IS)
I. Pretttttttttttyyyyy stupid that one of the clearest overviews I’ve found of the student debt crisis was written for financial marketers: “10 Things Every Financial Marketer Should Know About the Student Loan Crisis.” Thing number one: There is a crisis: “By the time you’re finished with this article, you’ll see there are big problems (and perhaps big opportunities) in the student lending space.”
Elizabeth Warren Continues to Kill It
Yesterday she introduced a piece of legislation (her first!) that would cut student loan interest rates to the rate banks pay to borrow money (when rates rise in July, students will pay nine times what banks pay). WARREN FOR EVERYTHING.
There Are Many Ways to Pay Your Student Loans
For example, you can pay them slowly. Or you can pay them quickly. Or you can not pay them at all.
When It Came to College, I Begrudgingly Did What My Parents Told Me to Do
I'm getting a Ph.D. but I kind of wish I wasn't. But I am.
