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Nearly two thirds of uni halls cost more than the minimum student loan

Oh, to be a student. You go through the stress of A-Levels, the monotonous process of UCAS, the struggles of moving out with half of Ikea's kitchenware department, all for the best days of your life – ... read more

Homeless college student ditches housing to afford tuition

As the cost of college has risen, students and their families have increasingly turned to debt to bridge the affordability gap. Between 1989 and 2010, the number of households reporting student loan . ... read more

The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won

Mactaggart began to scrutinize these policies closely, the way he read loan contracts ... They had recently submitted more than 629,000 signatures to qualify Mactaggart’s initiative for the ballot, ne... read more

The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Child-Care Problem

Despite dual incomes, their child care costs nearly 17% of their $72,000 take-home income—more than twice as much as a year of tuition and fees at Florida State University ... with this everyday need. ... read more

New Student Debt Scheme Turns Students Into Stock Options

Proposed by Friedman in the 1970s, "Back a Boiler" is less like a student loan and more ... nearly all tenured or tenure-track -- now on average, fewer than 25 percent of university faculty are tenure ... read more

More than 500,000 homeless in the US

Homeless unaccompanied youth and parenting youth are those hardest hit by unemployment, low wages and student loan debt ... in the US. Two-thirds of these individuals, or 54,815 people, were staying i... read more

Five things senators (and everyone else) should know about changes to HELP debts

It will still take students one to two decades to repay their debts There are now seven student loan ... than $30,000. HELP debts of $45,000 to $55,000 will be more usual. Debts of $60,000 to nearly $... read more

Millennial women aren’t doing as well as women before them. Why?

According to the American Association of University Women, women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt ... Women have more opportunities than ever before, she noted. But pursuing degr... read more

The real student loan crisis

Demos, the public policy group where I work, has just released a study that estimates the economic impact of the existing student debt burden, and finds that it may cost the country more than $4 trill... read more

The 10 Most Improved Colleges of 2016

Two grants totaling more than $200,000 ... meets with an older student who can walk him or her through the course tracking system. (Business is the college’s most popular major.) To keep the cost of a ... read more

Student Loan Debt Crisis: A New Nonprofit 13th Avenue Wants An America Without College Loans

The U.S. has a student loan ... Nearly 50 percent of high school seniors in the U.S. don’t know how much they'll need to pay for college, according to a report from the Credit Union National Associati... read more

Solving Maine’s student debt, workforce crises demand a collaborative approach

The cost of a university education and the debt students are assuming to pay for that education has become an 8,000-pound elephant in the room. Student debt in the U.S. topped $1.25 trillion this year ... read more