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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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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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Dealing with student-loan debt (12 News Phoenix)
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Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:19:21 GMT
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• Seek help early. If you lose your job, consider asking your lender right away about options to lower or postpone monthly payments. A lot of people wait until it's too late and the overdue notices pile up.
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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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Wednesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories - - March 10, 2010 (MalaysiaNews.net)
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:38:11 GMT
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See Search Box lower down this column for searches of Finfacts news pages. Where there may be the odd special character missing from an older page, it's a problem that developed when Interactiv...
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Richard (RJ) Eskow: Sallie Mae's Jets: Bank Shills Use "Socialism" Scare to Shaft Students, Serve the Wealthy (The Huffington Post)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:12:34 GMT
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One of Sallie Mae's corporate jets: Model IAI-1125A Astra SPX, registration #N188AK Two noted shills for the banking industry - Republican Lamar Alexander and...
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Squire Sanders Promotes 12 Distinguished Lawyers From the US, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:08:00 GMT
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With a focus on opportunities and the resources needed to respond to client challenges as the economy continues to recover, global law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. has made promotions in key practices, electing four new partners and naming four new principals and four new national partners.
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UDems set to lobby at Capitol Hill (The Daily Texan)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:26:08 GMT
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By: Vidushi Shrimali Members of University Democrats prepared for their trip to Washington, D.C, where they will urge lawmakers to lower the cost of tuition for higher education, with a rally in the Union on Sunday....
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Lookback: March 8, 2010 (Plattsburgh Press Republican)
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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:53:55 GMT
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25 YEARS AGO — 1985 • Gov. Mario Cuomo says he has reservations about putting a new prison in a place as remote as Malone in northern Franklin County, but indicated he would consider the proposal if it winds up in the state budget.
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Swindler faces victims, gets 8 years (Asbury Park Press)
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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:45:12 GMT
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TOMS RIVER — They got up one after another in Superior Court on Friday to tell stories about bankruptcy, lost life savings and broken dreams.
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