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A record 1 in 5 U.S. households carry student loan debt
About one in five U.S. households now carry some form of student loan debt — the highest share ever, according to a new Pew Research Center study. The number of households with student debt is now 19 percent, more than double what it was 20 years ago. The numbers are…
‘Don’t Double My Rate’ doesn’t get us anywhere on student loan debt
In a rare point of commonality, likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney and Democratic President Barack Obama now agree that interest rates on federal student loans should remain at 3.4 percent rather than going up to 6.7 percent on July 1 as scheduled. Yesterday, Obama got an entire room of students…
Obama woos young voters with student loan program
DENVER, Colorado — US President Barack Obama Wednesday dwelt upon his own struggles with student debt, as he laid out a plan to ease the burden of college loans and reached out to young voters in key swing state. The president, on his second visit to the Rocky Mountain electoral…
New York Fed: Student loan debt now over $1 trillion
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York claimed in a published report Wednesday that student loan debt in the U.S. has now surpassed $1 trillion, for the first time ever exceeding the total amount of credit card debt held by Americans. Due to the rising cost of education across the…
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One of the things that really undermines the anti-choice argument that they’re motivated strictly by love of “life” is the way they obsess particularly over college women, specifically the tendency of college women not to marry and have children while still in college, due to the fact that this is…
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