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Student Loan Providers Get More Help From the Government
13 November 08 03:39 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In a move intended to avoid a shortfall in student loans next year, Congress has expanded the government program to buy federally guaranteed student loans from private lenders. Under the updated loan-purchase plan, the Education Department can now buy Read More...

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Government Warns: Pell Grant Program in Trouble
22 September 08 02:47 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Without additional taxpayer funds next year, the government’s “most important” federal financial aid program may be unable to provide Pell Grants to millions of eligible low-income students, likely pricing these students out of a higher education, according Read More...

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Proposed Bill Combines House, Senate Versions of the Higher Education Act
14 May 08 04:51 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Congressional aides hope to finalize a renewal of the Higher Education Act by Memorial Day that merges different versions of the proposed bill passed separately by the House of Representatives and the Senate last year, according to an article in The Chronicle Read More...

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Credit Unions Offer Themselves as Partial Solution to Looming Student Loan Crisis
12 April 08 11:19 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

In the last six months alone, since legislators eliminated over $21 billion in subsidies to student loan lenders in the Federal Family Education Loan Program, at least 44 FFELP lenders have stopped originating federal student loans. This exodus of lenders Read More...

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Congress Joins States and Colleges in Efforts to Reduce Soaring Textbook Costs
03 March 08 07:09 AM | Student Loan Girl | 1 Comments   

With the average college student now shelling out between $900 and $1,000 each year for textbooks and supplies, according to the College Board ’s latest Trends in College Pricing report, schools, states, and now Congress are getting involved in the crusade Read More...

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