It does guarantee you will have a degree and most likely a student loan.
If you have taken a student loan, car loan, furniture loan, house loan, etc.
Owing money to anyone or any entity (the mob, a bookie, a student loan lender) never feels good.
In response, they clamp down on discretionary expenses when they are far away from a student loan disbursement date.
David Moss of Harvard Business School proposes to make the repayment of a student loan contingent on the borrower's income in later life.
Before I took office, we had a student loan system where tens of billions of taxpayer dollars were going to banks, not students.
However, in the current job market many graduates are unemployed or underemployed and unable to pay their debt, making the benefits of a student loan more speculative.
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Democrats blasted Romney for supporting a student loan interest rate extension when he'd previously backed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposed cuts to the federal Pell Grant program.
Somewhere along the line, we got a student loan.
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In their proposal, a student loan insurance market would increase the number of students finishing their degree by 3.8%, with greater effects for students who are currently more likely to drop out.
Before I took office, we had a student loan system where tens of billions of taxpayer dollars were going to subsidize banks in the student loan program instead of going to students.
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The government's accountants define the cost of a student loan as the cash going out minus the projected repayments, the repayments being discounted using a complicated blend of rates on U.S. Treasury securities.
They want to repeal reforms that will finally protect hardworking families from hidden rates and penalties every time they use a credit card, make a mortgage payment, or take out a student loan.
The U.S. Supreme Court just released a decision in favor of a student loan borrower who was able to get out from under thousands of dollars worth of loan debt after filing for bankruptcy.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) defended the vote, noting that the Republican party was not in favor of a student loan interest rate increase but did not support a boost in taxes for small businesses.
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Too often, students and families face the daunting task of deciding where to enroll, whether to write a check, or whether to sign for a student loan, without a clear explanation of what the costs mean, or how these costs compare to other colleges they are considering.
And you create a situation -- movie analogies are popular these days -- you create a situation where you have real people who suffer -- in addition to the impact on your interest rates, whether you have a car loan, a mortgage, a student loan, a credit card -- interest rates go up.
Rather, with so many variables involved in qualifying for some forms of aid, and not knowing if that aid will come in the form of a student loan or a scholarship at most universities, perhaps more families will rise up to the challenge and create cool strategies to pay for college, with or without financial aid.
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Something all the parties seem to be very ignorant to is that the student loan isn't enough for most students to live on, accommodation fees frequently take up most or all of a student loan, and even when they don't you certainly can't afford more than 2 text books a year before having to work or borrow extra money.
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We might not all agree that student loan debt should be forgiven but I think most folks are of like minds that, if the federal government continues to promote loans over grants as the way to finance college, then Americans deserve a student loan system that, at the bare minimum, empowers borrowers to take control of the debt management experience.
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While a refreshing 65% of those surveyed by Instant.ly opposed bankruptcy as a way out of student loan debt, a full 81% of those surveyed with student debt said the government should participate in student loan forgiveness.
First Marblehead, a student-loan company, did flame out most spectacularly in the early days of the financial crisis.
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Mr Becker proposes a system where potential migrants could borrow from the government, under something like a student-loan scheme.
However, the government is expected to make a higher student loan available to students who decide to take on the more expensive courses outside Northern Ireland.
One case study found that it takes ten days for a bank to process a simple student loan that should take one day, because the bank has to print out the online forms and courier them to the applicant for signatures, then wait for them to be returned by post only to scan them back into digital form.
Building wealth is not only about growing your assets, but also reducing your liabilities, be it a mortgage, student loan, car loan, credit card debt, or a small business loan.
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Interest rates would spike for anybody who borrows money -- every homeowner with a mortgage, every student with a college loan, every small business owner who wants to grow and hire.
Produced by Serge Bakalian and directed by Aurora Meneghello, Default: the Student Loan Documentary takes a frank and frightening look at the student loan industry through interviews with borrowers, academics and student loan reform advocates.
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As they put it, the student loan system, is a mess because, at its current rate, aggregate student debt is doubling every seven years (and growing much faster than other forms of debt which traditionally dwarfed student loans), student loan default rates are rising, and a large portion of student borrowers is in poor financial shape, even after graduating from college.
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