Undermining a New Effort to Promote Public Service

Is the U.S. Department of Education deliberately trying to undermine a new program created by Congress to encourage students to pursue careers in ... by consolidating their debt into Direct Lending. The program is a reaction to reports that student ... government will forgive the remaining debt of Direct Student Loan borrowers if they make 120 [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 18:43:00

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Maybe Kevin Cullen should stick to writing about mobsters

Aaron Weber explains why Cullen's recent Ungrateful Sallie Mae column does a good job at pulling at the heart strings (family of a dead Marine having trouble getting the company to forgive $100,000 in student loans ... . And that, Weber (who works in the loan field) concludes, might be because Cullen couldn't be bothered to ask [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 04:02:43

Ideas for Change

The change.org website is running a poll on its readers’ top ten “ideas for change in America ... the leading proposals, and the United States Student Association is urging its members and allies to vote for two in particular — passage of the DREAM Act and student loan forgiveness. Go check [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:15:55

Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

This information comes from a great web page created by the National Council of Nonprofits ... Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007. There might be hope for those with tremendous student loan debt ... , public safety, public interest law service, public care for children, elders or disabled [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:51:43

Bankruptcy

Teresa Sullivan et al's book, As We Forgive Our Debtors (1989, see Chap 8, specifically) ... of points right after college. I had credit card debt, student loan debt, and an uninsured car accident ... points out that women were not even guaranteed credit in their own names until 1970 (or 1974 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:47:18

Weekly Roundup and Carnivals

Again it’s time to roundup posts I read this week and carnivals I participated in ... @ HighEducationWebBlog talks about “Student Loan Forgiveness“.  A must read for anyone in student loan debt. I had no idea peace corps and americorps had loan forgiveness if you worked for them. Kay Bell [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 16:00:00

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