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Overhaul of Student Loan System in the Works
22 June 09 08:30 AM | Student Loan Girl | 0 Comments   

A bill to overhaul the student loan industry may reach Congress as early as next week; education-committee chairs are working behind the scenes on a piece of legislation that would eliminate the third-party student loan system called the Federal Family 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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