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How to finally address the US's out-of-control student-loan crisis, according to a finance professor

Over the past decade, college enrollment of high-school graduates has reached 67% and student-loan debt has more than doubled ... In the past two decades, the average cost of attending a public ... read more

The $833 billion albatross around the necks of women with college degrees

The burden of student debt is having an outsize impact on women who now hold nearly two thirds of the $1.3 trillion ... Considering the larger loan amounts that women take on and the fact that they ... read more

University of Southern California tuition hike sparks student outrage

Tuition at the University of Southern California is now more expensive than Harvard ... a tuition hike of nearly $2,000 for the 2016-2017 school year, which raised the annual cost of attendance to $51 ... 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 Biggest Higher Education Scam Isn't Hollywood Fraud, It's Academia Itself

Illegal new money bribery aside, the justifications for propping up universities, which often act as little more than elite ... presidency for two full years, Republicans failed even to curb increases ... read more

College Costs Are America's Cruel Graduation Gift

The average tuition for a public university has more than tripled, from just over $3,000 to nearly $10,000 ... But that same student’s financial aid offer from the university she hoped to attend only ... read more

I Paid Off My $110,000 Student Loan Debt Before I Turned 30

Americans’ collective student-loan balance surpassed $1.5 trillion (!) in 2018, according to the Federal Reserve System. In fact, you’re probably nodding your head—women hold nearly two-thirds ... ... 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

College costs stall as borrowing falls, study says

Costs at private, non-profit, four-year institutions increased 4.2 percent to $29,056 for the current school year from $27,883 in 2011-2012. About two-thirds ... income. “Nearly 50 percent of women ... read more

How to finally address the country's out-of-control student loan crisis, according to a finance professor

Over the last decade, college enrollment of high school graduates has reached 67 percent, and student-loan debt has more ... than wages, leaving a widening financial burden to meet. In the last two ... 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 ... read more