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Service Members Battle Student Loan Debt at Home
Tweet Share on Facebook May 22, 2013 CommentMany of our service members return home to combat other adversaries, from suffering post-traumatic stress to struggling to find employment. Many also shoulder a heavy burden of student loan debt.
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Ways Congress Can Simplify Federal Student Loans
Tweet Share on Facebook May 8, 2013 CommentToo complex, poorly targeted, too arbitrary: These are some of the criticisms The Institute for College Access and Success levels against the federal student loan program in a comprehensive white paper, "Aligning the Means and the Ends: How to Improve Federal Student Aid and Increase College Access and Success."
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How Student Debt Affects Women, Minorities
Tweet Share on Facebook May 1, 2013 CommentThe estimated $1 trillion in student loan debt affects individuals from all walks of life. However, according to two studies, women and minorities are two groups experiencing some of the greatest repercussions of student debt. So, how deep is the disparate impact on these groups, why does it exist and what can be done?
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New Report Suggests Ways to Fix Legal Education
Tweet Share on Facebook April 24, 2013 CommentA combination of rising law school tuition, underemployment and the work done by policy organization Law School Transparency, authors and educators Paul Campos and Brian Tamanaha and many others – coupled with a marked decline in law school applications – is slowly forcing legal education to change.
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What Obama's Budget Could Mean for Student Borrowers
Tweet Share on Facebook April 17, 2013 CommentPresident Barack Obama submitted his budget proposal for the 2014 fiscal year to Congress last week and, once again, he suggests a number of reforms that would affect grants and student loans. While all aspects of the president's proposal will remain just that – a proposal – unless and until Congress approves the budget, here's a rundown of some of his major recommendations regarding student debt.
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Explore Congress Members' Student Loan Debt
Tweet Share on Facebook April 10, 2013 CommentThe Student Loan Ranger has documented how the increased cost of college has affected people across the socioeconomic spectrum. Students from poor, working class, middle class and even well-off families are finding that grants, scholarships and federal programs like work-study and Pell grants don't go as far as they used to.
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How the Student Loan Fairness Act Could Benefit Borrowers
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2013 CommentThe Student Loan Ranger's original post about the Student Loan Forgiveness Act garnered almost 300 comments, which we tried to sum up in a follow-up post that also answered some common questions and gave an overview of some relief options that currently exist.
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Take Control of Student Loan Debt in 5 Ways
Tweet Share on Facebook March 27, 2013 CommentAs student debt levels — along with delinquencies and defaults — continue to rise, borrowers need to ask: "What can I do to keep my student loans manageable?"
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Examine Financial Picture as Law School Applications Decline
Tweet Share on Facebook March 20, 2013 CommentIn August, the Student Loan Ranger reviewed Brian Tamanaha's book "Failing Law Schools," focusing on his explanations for rising law school tuition and the implications for prospective students. A professor of law at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Tamanaha is well aware that rising tuition and declining job prospects have hit home for prospective law students, who are shying away from law school
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Explore the Role of Underemployment in the Student Debt Crisis
Tweet Share on Facebook March 13, 2013 CommentThere's been a lot of press recently about the un- and underemployment of college graduates, but the phenomenon is not limited to undergraduates.
