Student Loan debt

White House Extends Pause on Student-Loan Payments Until the End of August: Will Biden Go the Full Monty?

The White House is extending the pause on student-loan payments until August 31st--an extraordinary development. By the time this pause...

The Pandemic Forbearance on Student Loan Payments Will End Soon: Federal Reserve Bank Expects Default Rates to Rise

In March 2020, the U.S. Department of Education allowed 37 million student-loan borrowers to pause their monthly loan payments due...

What is a grace period for student loans?

Student loans are great financial tools for people who can’t afford to pay for their education outright. As the price...

Reputable student loan consolidation companies

Student loan debt is one of the biggest burdens for students as well as parents. It is not always to...

Congress & DOE Can't Fix the Student Loan Program: They're Just Making It Up As They Go Along

Paolo Bacigalupi's apocalyptic novel The Water Knife is a tale about the struggle for water in the desert Southwest. Lucy,...

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt: The Student-Loan Crisis is Getting Worser and Worser

"It's a thankless job," Kurt Vonnegut observed in Titans of Siren, "telling people it's a hard, hard Universe they're in."I...

Baton Rouge Man Convicted of Massive Student Loan Fraud: Baton Rouge Community College Becomes Crime Scene

A few days ago, Elliott Sterling of Baton Rouge was convicted of massive student-loan fraud. As reported in the Baton...

How Screwed Up is the Federal Student Loan Program? We Can Tell You, But Then We'd Have to Kill You!

Betsy DeVos, the Wicked Witch of the Midwest, was perhaps the most despised member of President Trump's cabinet. As Trump's...

Like Prisoners on Death Row: 25 million student debtors may get another reprieve from making their student-loan payments

Around 2,500 prisoners sit on Death Row in American prisons. Nearly 700 condemned men await death in the Golden State...

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On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, our lending partner, MPOWER Financing, will be hosting a special live session about a limited-time...

Car Loan for International Student

Is it even possible to get a car loan for international students? YES! It is possible. Having a car is...

A student-debt strike to pressure Congress for wholesale student-loan forgiveness simply won't work

Student Debt Strike, an online Reddit community, advocates for a mass student-debt strike as the best way to pressure Congress...