STUDENT LOAN LENDING PRACTICES

Some of America's leading student loan lenders, like Sallie Mae and Citigroup, have been accused of illegal lending practices. Should we really let some greedy executives gamble with our children's futures for the sake of improving their bottom line?

A brief explanation on how a GPA requirement for student loans works against college students.

MyRichUncle, a seven year old New York student lender has It's name as the greatest assets. It's one of the five fastest publicly held education finance companies.

A new student debtor revolt is gearing up toward trying to collapse the entire student loan industry and forcing Congress back to the drawing board toward helping taxpayers and students alike.

A guide to the changes made in the Student Aid Fiscal Responsibility (SAFRA) act. Describes how the new bill will affect existing and new student borrowers.

Recount of how one student tried to consolidate her federal and private student loans.

The recent recession has affected many sectors in the economy, but one sector that is not getting the attention it deserves is that of student loans. Get a good deal on student loans and financial aid without paying high interest!

Predatory lending is becoming increasingly more common in the student loan sector. This article discusses the problems associated with this type of lending.

An overview of some of the services and benefits offered by student loan consolidation centers.

Student loans offer students a chance to pursue their dreams. Budget shortfalls, rising interest rates and a chronic shortage of students have led to an unsettling coziness between lenders and Colleges that may not be in the best interest of the student.

College loans are often predatory, unethical and saddle borrowers with a debt they cannot overcome. Credit ratings are ruined, job prospects are lost and borrowers are left doing no better than their high-school counterparts.

Students are increasing their student loan borrowing, drowning deeper and deeper into debt.

With corporations profiting from their decisions all this time, from this day forward, may the strongest survive.

Education is perhaps the most important element on modern human development and survival in the technical age that we live in. It has been shown statistically, that those who are more educated tend to earn more money, and have a higher quality of living t

The Missouri Attorney General is continuing to work with schools over providing students with loan information.

The days of an expensive college degree guaranteeing you a long and fruitful financial future are long gone...

Financial literacy, oddly enough, isn't on the curriculum for most U.S. households or schools. The result: fiscally-irresponsible adults. Parents, however, can prevent their kids from learning financial lessons the hard way with this four-step guide.

The current economic crisis may seem abstract and distant to some, but it cannot be more immediate and pressing for young people in their early twenties. Mr. Stolyarov hopes to convey some understanding of the experiences faced by this group of people.

A series of Supreme Court decisions in the 1990s helped push the country away from Brown's celebrated ideals, while closer to the old idea of "separate but equal," the dissolution of these desegregation orders and a return to patterns of segregation.

With the government's overreaction to the financial crisis, there are thousands of pages of new regulations covering every aspect of the financial sector.

This article explains how Americans are partially responsible for the economic collapse of 2008.

Banks encourage students to rack up debt while still in college by givng kick backs to colleges, universities and alumnis...

Our life changes, and as life changes, what we decide to make our home and where we choose to live changes from year to year. But, before making any hardcore decisions, here are some simple things that you may want to think about...