Paying for College

Event Honoring Late DJ Mark Kamins Tonight

Mark Kamins was an influential Dj at '80s clubs like Danceteria, and as a DJ/producer he was instrumental in helping launch Madonna's career.

Rand Paul Addresses Rightbloggers, Who Receive Him Well, Despite All Those Black People Getting in the Way

Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul spoke at historically black Howard University last week, and it was a major event. No, he didn't seem to win any black votes for the GOP -- even his fans admit as much. But white people of the rightblogger variety were all over it, and that's what counts. Some ... More >>

Bloomberg Donates $350M To Alma Mater, Becomes Largest Living Donor To Education

Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday, it was discovered in a New York Times exclusive that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg would be making a $350 million donation to John Hopkins University - the Hizzoner's alma mater where he apparently ruled the frat circuit. With this amount, Mr. Bloomberg has don ... More >>

Is Exposing Racist A-Holes OK If Those Racist A-Holes Are High School Kids?

As we reported earlier, there's a racist "tweet" war waging against re-elected President Barack Obama. The words "nigger" and "monkey" are popular slurs directed at the president by presumably white morons who are upset that they must endure four more years of Obama (gasp!).But many of these racist ... More >>

For The Record: Here's What Obama Has Done

2016: Obama's America is a conservative glimpse at the alleged horror of the Obama Presidency, looking ahead to what shambles America will supposedly be in if he's reelected. And people are lining up to see it! The film made over six million last week--practically the same amount as the Joseph Gor ... More >>

City Wages War on Scam For-Profits

Warning signs

For-Profit Colleges Only a Con Man Could Love

Barbarians in the Ivory Tower

Students, Your Interest Rates Are Safe... For Now

Have a massive IOU to pay off? Well, we have somewhat good news for you.Back in April, the Voice reported on the impending student loan crisis that would have to be solved before July 1st - the day when the interest rates on 7 million students' federal loans would double to 6.8%. With the SCOTU ... More >>

Student Loans Become Even More Burdensome, Starting Sunday

If you're a student or former student with educational debt, or if you're just someone made anxious by this country's $1-trillion-and-growing student-debt bubble, you may well have breathed a sigh of relief this week when Congress reached an 11th-hour agreement to avoid doubling the interest rate on ... More >>

Student Loans: Will Interest Rates Double?

The Voice recently reported that the interest rates on federally backed Stafford loans will double July 1 -- from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent -- unless Congress gets its shit together. Well, it looks like some legislators in the House are trying to prevent this increase -- by cutting funding to hea ... More >>

Student Loans: Yes, There's Even More Bad News

Hey, college students! If you weren't already bummed that 53 percent of you will likely face joblessness or underemployment upon graduation, or that university is a big waste of time and money, we have even more bad news for you. Unless Congress gets its shit together -- which it probably won't b ... More >>

Obama, Schumer and the Student Loan Armaggedon

Over 7 million students receive some sort of subsidized student loan from the U.S. federal government. That is a ton of debt and it's getting larger every year: eclipsing credit cards and car loans, the figure right now stands at around $870 billion nationally. And, on July 1st, it could double ... More >>

Obama to Grad Students: Pay Up

To save student-loan programs, the White House has saddled master's and Ph.D. candidates with added debt.

Will Student Defaults on Loans Bring Down the U.S. Economy?

Dawn of the debt

Education Supplement: Bursting the Tuition Bubble

The soaring cost of college has multiple causes and no easy solution

Protester Would Like You to Pay His Bills For Duration of Occupy Wall Street

​An Occupy Wall Street organizer has found a creative solution that many hard-core protesters face: How do you Occupy full-time and pay the bills? In Dicey Troop's case, the answer is: Ask the Internet to send you money. Troop is one of the people who manages the @LibertySqGA account, which ... More >>

NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?

Colleges Forced to Explain Why They Are So Damn Expensive

​Over 500 colleges will have to submit reports to the government explaining tuition hikes, CNN reports. The Department of Education published a list this morning of schools that had the highest tuition increases over the last three years. Both private and public institutions are included and w ... More >>

Obama in NYC With Al Sharpton: Student Loans Suck

​Amid desperate budget negotiations and a looming government shutdown, President Barack Obama came to New York City last night to speak at the twentieth-anniversary party for Al Sharpton's National Action Network. At the gala, Obama focused on the issue of education inequality, but only after ... More >>

Money, Too, Can Ruin Your Relationship -- Especially If You Don't Have Any

​Today in the plight of the single lady: The New York Times takes on a topic that most early daters conspicuously avoid -- money. Yep, turns out that having debt, most especially, a whole lot of debt, can ruin your relationship. (And we thought breakups were all about commitment phobias and no ... More >>

Smart Money, Huh? American Student-Loan Debt Now Greater Than American Credit Card Debt

​Hey, creditors, leave those kids alone! All along, it turns out, they were just another brick in the massive wall of student-loan debt Americans have now acquired which -- fun fact! -- has now surpassed American credit card debt, reports to the Wall Street Journal. Which is how much, exactly? ... More >>

Financial Aid Update: Mostly, More Money for Students

The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

A Loan and Afraid

Sweet Relief

You asked the politicians for help with student debt. And maybe, just maybe, you're about to get it.

Student Loan Xploited

Columbia reels after stock allegations.

Get Into Debt Fast: Tips for Last-Minute Student Loans

Yvette Clarke: How Do You Like Her Now?

John Boehner: Yet Another Lobbying Slut?

The new House Majority Leader is not quite the 'reformer' he claims

Letters

Your Late Fees, Their Millions

Can't pay your student loan on time? The fat cats at Sallie Mae are so glad to hear it.

Shady Sallie

An inside look at what Bush has done to your student loan

Bill Weld's School Daze

The GOP candidate's troubled term at a construction training college

Robin Hoods

Student activists trying to take from banks, give to the needy with the National Tuition Endowment

Uncle Sam vs. James Lockhart

Supreme Court hears appeal of elderly, sick man dunned for student loans

Back of the Class

College students get short shrift from Katrina aid

Loan Wolf

House bill makes largest cuts ever in student aid

Johnny Comes Marching Home to Loans

Think joining the army will clear your student debt? Better check the fine print.

High Interest in Low Interest

Student borrowers scramble to beat a deadline for cheap rates

Greed Aid

Big banks do billions in student loans—and that means less money for you

Borrow More Now! Pay More Later!

Bush's big plan for sticking it to us again

I, Breadwinner?

Your dad had a job, a wife, a house. You've got loans and fear of commitment. Hello, manhood.

Sorry, Kids

Mom and dad have glimpsed your future, and it's not exactly bright

But Boot Camp Is Still Free

Bush, Congress quietly slash key grants for college

Your Mi$ery I$ Their Profit

Up to your ear$ in $tudent loan$? That'$ good new$ for the bond trader$

The Ambition Tax

Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

The Student Loan Blues

Left Out

Aiding the Middle Class

High Crimes

No Exit

Feds break out the hired guns to nab student-loan jumpers