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Before filing for bankruptcy, try living within your means (Los Angeles Times)
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Dear Liz: I am a 49-year-old single father with two boys, 17 and 12. I had my own business for five years, which I finally gave up last year. I have credit card debt of about $68,000. My credit score is still good and all payments are current. I do not own a house, and I do not own much personal property either. I found a job a few months ago, and with that, I can still make payments every month ...
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Defaults on student loans rising (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:01 GMT
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Every year, tens of thousands of college students and graduates stop making payments on their student loans. For more than a decade, that loan-default rate was in decline because the federal government toughened penalties for schools with high shares of defaults.
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In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:27:59 GMT
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PETER S. GOODMAN Commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and Pell grants.
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Medical School Costs, Loan Rates Rise Sharply (Medical News Today)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:42:32 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage." "Tuition and fees at public medical schools, after all, have shot up 133 percent since 1990, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. ...
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Promise and tragedy (The Register-Guard)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:49:30 GMT
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COQUILLE — Jesse McCoy got a collect phone call last Wednesday, from Prince William County jail in Manassas, Va. It was his half-brother, Gabriel Morris, who is accused of murdering their mother and her boyfriend last month at their home outside Coquille. McCoy thought his brother might be calling to …
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COOKIE MORETTI: Health care action necessary (The Indiana Gazette)
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Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:10:59 GMT
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Sometime today I ask that you stop and look around you. Look into the eyes of the people around you.
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Defaults on student loans rising (The Arizona Republic)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:05:42 GMT
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Advocates cite tuition, loose lending, low wages.
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CIT closes on $667 million securitization (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:21:45 GMT
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CIT Group Inc., the commercial lender that emerged from bankruptcy protection late last year, said Thursday that it closed a $667 million equipment lease securitization.
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Obama delays Asia trip to focus on push (Washington Post)
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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:11:13 GMT
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President will leave for Indonesia three days later than planned, in an effort to move stalled legislation through Congress.
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Medical school costs, loan rates rise sharply (News-Medical-Net)
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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:43:04 GMT
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NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents] are paying after refinancing their mortgage."
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