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Subprime Colleges, Revisited
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:27:38 -0700
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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.
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Sallie Mae to Go on the Chopping Block?
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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:42:38 -0700
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Is Sallie Mae headed for a break-up? According to The New York Post the student lender hired Goldman Sachs to advise on a sale or spinoff of its student-loan servicing business and its $145 billion government-subsidized loan portfolio.
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Letters to the editor: July 31, 2010
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:24:00 -0700
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Here are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of July 31, 2010
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Student loans undergo more serious changes
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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:04:59 -0700
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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.
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Sallie Mae's Options May Be Limited
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:28:27 -0700
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Sallie Mae is reportedly mulling its strategic options, and at least one analyst thinks spin-offs are more realistic than an acquisition.
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Sallie sale days
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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:46:15 -0700
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Sallie Mae, America's largest student lender, has tapped Goldman Sachs to help it consider a possible breakup of the company, The Post has learned. The Reston, Va.-based loan originator is working with Goldman to possibly sell or spin off its student-loan servicing business and do the same with...
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Higher Education Overhaul Moves Forward
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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:22:48 -0700
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By: DAVIN SURIN As the nation watched Washington duke it out over the healthcare reform bill, one of the most significant pieces of higher education legislation to pass in years was overshadowed....
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The Way I See It
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:59:20 -0700
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Penny For Pinellas - The name "Penny For Pinellas" was derived from creative folks who wanted to disguise an add-on tax for Pinellas County taxpayers.
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By Henry C K Liu
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Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:07:58 -0700
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Recurring financial crises of past decades had clearly exposed the instability of globalized unregulated financial markets and the great danger that poses for the economic wellbeing of defenseless developing countries participating in such markets.
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For Members
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Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:35:35 -0700
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Abstract: President Obama declared: "I didn't come here to pass our problems on to the next president or the next generation--I'm here to solve them."
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