Paul Goulet hopes Connecticut will help him get from under nearly $8,000 he's borrowed for college after losing his job in a paper manufacturing plant. Goulet, 55, is a student in environmental studies at Goodwin College in East Hartford, aiming to find ...
Health care plan could also help resurrect college aid plan Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage. The student loan ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's stalled bid to overhaul the federal student loan program by cutting subsidies to private lenders and increasing aid to students received a boost on Friday. Democratic congressional leaders agreed to fold Obama's student-loan proposal into a ...
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congressional Budget Office said on Friday that a student loan reform plan backed by Sallie Mae and other lenders might save U.S. taxpayers $17 billion less than one backed by the Obama administration.</p><p>The Obama plan has already been ...
<div><p> Shawn Agyeman was down on his luck last fall, having just lost his job as a research assistant at the University of Pittsburgh, his alma mater. With looming monthly student loan payments of around $200 a month hanging over his head, ...
<p>As you take your first hesitant steps off a college campus and into the world of professional jobs and regular paychecks, it’s easy to become giddy or overwhelmed. The congratulations and cards keep coming, but soon you have to make some major ...
<div id="subtitle">House college aid bill would boost Pell Grants, kill subsidized student loans</div><div><p>The House voted Thursday in favor of the biggest overhaul of college aid programs since their creation in the 1960s — a bill to oust private lenders from the student ...
<div id="subtitle">House college aid bill would boost Pell Grants, kill subsidized student loans</div><div><p>The House is poised to vote to push private lenders out of the federal college loan business and massively expand the government's own lending program.</p><p>Following a ...
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The biggest change in U.S. higher education finance in 35 years was approved on Thursday by the House of Representatives, handing a defeat to major banks and student loan giant Sallie Mae.</p><p>Lawmakers voted 253-171 in favor of legislation that ...
<div><p>TROY, New York (Reuters) - President Barack Obama criticized the largest U.S. banks on Monday for trying to thwart legislation that would overhaul federal student loan programs.</p><p>He singled out in particular banks that have received bailout money from the federal government, saying ...
