Subject:

Paying for College

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    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.

  • News

    April 4, 2012

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

    Dawn of the debt

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Education Supplement: Bursting the Tuition Bubble

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

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

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

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    A New CUNY Community College Is Opening in 2012

    It will offer extra support to students—but with a catch

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    New Fast Train Will Take You to Atlantic City, Penury

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Study: Denying College to Prison Inmates Is Boneheaded

    Bill Clinton and the Pataki administration made a huge mistake when they signed legislation in the mid-1990s that blocked state prisoners from obtaining a college education from their cells.    That's the finding of a report released Friday by the Correctional Association of New York, a leading p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

    Bill Clinton and the Pataki administration made a huge mistake when they signed legislation in the mid-1990s that blocked state prisoners from obtaining a college education from their cells.    That's the finding of a report released Friday by the Correctional Association of New York, a leading p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    A Loan and Afraid

    Bill Clinton and the Pataki administration made a huge mistake when they signed legislation in the mid-1990s that blocked state prisoners from obtaining a college education from their cells.    That's the finding of a report released Friday by the Correctional Association of New York, a leading p ... More >>

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

    Sweet Relief

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

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

    Student Loan Xploited

    Columbia reels after stock allegations.

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

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

    Columbia reels after stock allegations.

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2006

    Yvette Clarke: How Do You Like Her Now?

    Columbia reels after stock allegations.

  • News

    January 31, 2006

    John Boehner: Yet Another Lobbying Slut?

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

  • News

    January 31, 2006

    Letters

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

  • News

    January 17, 2006

    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.

  • Books

    January 17, 2006

    Small Change

    Down and out: For post-Boomers, the personal is never political

  • News

    January 10, 2006

    Shady Sallie

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

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Bill Weld's School Daze

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

  • News

    November 8, 2005

    Robin Hoods

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

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    Uncle Sam vs. James Lockhart

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

  • News

    September 27, 2005

    Back of the Class

    College students get short shrift from Katrina aid

  • News

    August 9, 2005

    Loan Wolf

    House bill makes largest cuts ever in student aid

  • NYC Life

    June 21, 2005

    Johnny Comes Marching Home to Loans

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

  • News

    June 7, 2005

    High Interest in Low Interest

    Student borrowers scramble to beat a deadline for cheap rates

  • NYC Life

    April 5, 2005

    You Deserve a Bag Today

    How to totally blow your tax refund

  • News

    March 29, 2005

    Greed Aid

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

  • News

    February 15, 2005

    Borrow More Now! Pay More Later!

    Bush's big plan for sticking it to us again

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    I, Breadwinner?

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

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    Sorry, Kids

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

  • News

    November 30, 2004

    A Dream Deferred

    The kids of immigrants find there's no straight path to American success

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    But Boot Camp Is Still Free

    Bush, Congress quietly slash key grants for college

  • News

    October 26, 2004

    Your Mi$ery I$ Their Profit

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

  • News

    June 1, 2004

    SpaghettiOs, Mom's Credit Card, and Centipedes in the Basement

    Hungry grads make a shoestring assault on New York

  • News

    March 9, 2004

    The Ambition Tax

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

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2004

    The Student Loan Blues

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

  • NYC Life

    August 29, 2000

    Left Out

    Aiding the Middle Class

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    High Crimes

    Aiding the Middle Class

  • News

    April 13, 1999

    No Exit

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

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