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Attention Freshmen and Transfer Students: Colleges Still Have Openings
07 May 09 03:25 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Almost 260 colleges and universities around the country still have openings for students, and most of these schools still have ample financial aid available. Read More...

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College Students May Be Sheltered From Down Economy, for Now
14 November 08 03:01 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Regardless of how long the economy remains in crisis or whether or not this crisis becomes a recession, the effect on students will likely be minimal, at least in the short-term, says Fred Ruppel, economics professor at Eastern Kentucky University (“ Read More...

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Paying for College Gets More Challenging For Families
22 October 08 05:42 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

Paying for college definitely isn’t getting any easier. “It just seems like it’s really hard, because it is,” says Diana Jacobs, a mother of twin, college seniors, whose husband recently lost his job, forcing the family to go from borrowing modestly to Read More...

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Feeling the Pinch of Rising Food and Gas Prices, Students Flock to Food Banks
29 July 08 12:42 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

The rising cost of food and gas has become so taxing for some students that food banks in college towns are beginning to see an influx of students, according to an Associated Press article (“ Struggling College Students Turn to Food Banks ,” July 26, Read More...

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Bear Stearns Takeover Leaves Business-School Students Scrambling
14 April 08 08:13 PM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

BearStearns CEO, Jimmy Cayne, seems to have been the only former Stearns employee to make it out of the JPMorgan Chase buyout relatively unscathed — at least in non-CEO terms — walking away with $61.3 million in sold shares. Even though, in his own high-priced Read More...

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