Posts Tagged ‘Student Loans’
HB 2675: Just because college is free for you »
Here are a couple breaking news items for your Monday: The state of Arizona is broke. College is expensive. If you keep making an investment that doesn't yield a solid return on that investment, you should probably reconsider whether it's a good investment. Alarming everyone with a Facebook this weekend was an article from the East Valley [...]
Could income-based student loans fix higher education? »
The idea of graduating college with no student loans probably sounds great for students who sacrifice sleep, nutrition, and drinking beer better than Keystone to make loan payments each month for much of their young lives. These crushing loans seem especially unfair to students whose investment in college don't yield as comfortable salary [...]
Back to School with Rodney »
Today's Daily Wildcat features a truly bizarre two-question interview with Rodney Glassman, bailout seeking ice rink proprietor, obnoxious local socialite, proud five-time UA alumnus, and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. Currently polling 21 points behind opponent John McCain, Tucson's own Donk Quixote squares up his lance and crashes [...]
Arizona is NUMBER 1… when it comes to college »
From the Daily Star: At 10.9 percent, Arizona has a higher rate of federal-student-loan defaults than any other state in the nation, the government said Monday. The U.S. Education Department released data that show how many borrowers defaulted within two years after their first repayments came due between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, [...]
Crowded out »
Kathy Kristof takes a look at the student loan market in the Feb. 2 issue of Forbes magazine and finds that the world of college finance ain't that pretty at all. As she puts it, student loans are just one component in …an unfolding education hoax on the middle class that's just as insidious, and nearly as sweeping, as the housing debacle. The [...]
A diploma on every wall: the federal bailout, your »
How quickly things change. After a few short, sweet days of schadenfreude over the defeat of the Big Bailout, Congress and the President handed $700 billion to Hank Paulson Friday, via the second draft of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (now stuffed with more pork!). Among the paperback-thick bill's many provisions for government [...]