Good and bad debt -- and how to tell the difference (Los Angeles Times)
Why You Should Consolidate Your Student Loans (Evening Times)
More Americans struggle to climb out of debt (The News Journal)
Bush to address economy over next 2 days (AP via Yahoo! News)
Pakistani women empowered by learning to sew (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Student hopes idea for education fund wins
Oakland University student Yasmin Flack is hoping a project she has proposed to PepsiCo will yield some refreshing results.
Read more...Graduates charged rates of 19pc on 'interest-free' student overdraft
Hundreds of thousands of students who graduated a year ago could soon find that they are paying interest rates of up to 19pc now they have entered the "real world".
Read more...Subprime Colleges, Revisited
The Senate will hold its second committee hearing next Wednesday on the status of for-profit education in the United States. Enrollment at for-profit colleges and trade schools has tripled in the last decade to about 1.8 million, or nearly 10 percent of the nations higher education students.
Read more...State offering fixed rate college loans
College tuition invoices are in the mail and will be due in the next several weeks, leaving some New York students and families scrambling to fill the tuition gap between their available financial aid the amount due on the bill.
Read more...Student loans undergo more serious changes
Every year on July 1, with summer in full swing and fall tuition payments on the horizon, interest rates on federal student loans reset. But this year, along with rate decreases on some loan types, came major changes to the way students will borrow money in the coming years.
Read more...Number of bankruptcies nearly tripled in Valencia County
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