Monthly Archives: May 2014

The New York Times recently looked at the sad plight of Cortney Munna, a 26-year-old graduate of New York University with nearly $100,000 in student loans — for her, an insurmountable sum that she cannot afford to make payments on. … Continue reading →

I can remember being 17, sitting in our Michigan farmhouse, across the kitchen table from my mother. “You don’t have to go there just because you got a scholarship,” she said. “You can go to any other college you want. … Continue reading →

Corbis, Jamie Grill America is in full-on student loan damage control mode. Faced with a $1 trillion student debt hole and college graduates entering the job market already $27,000 in the red, lawmakers are butting heads over the right way … Continue reading →

In part one of this two-part series, Money College blogger Jennifer Larson explores how students can get student loans paid or deferred through their volunteer work.If you feel stuck in the never-ending cog of student loan debt, you are certainly … Continue reading →

Outstanding student loans having topped the $1 trillion mark, but it’s down at the individual level where that debt burden has built up that former students are finding it difficult to bear. With jobs still hard to come by, young … Continue reading →

By Amanda Chatel For as long as I can remember, my father warned me about the dangers of credit cards.After I got my first job the summer after high school senior year, it became clear just how irresponsible I was … Continue reading →

Students at New York University graduate with an average of $33,487 in debt, according to U.S. News & World Report, putting it among the schools with the highest debt load per graduate in the country.But a group of NYU students … Continue reading →

J. Scott Applewhite, APCollege students wait on the steps of the House for a news conference on federal student loan rates, which doubled on July 1, 2013. Last week, the Senate came up with a partial solution to the student … Continue reading →

Over the last two years, I have received more questions about student loans than I got in the previous two decades combined. The reason is brutally simple: Not only is college more expensive than ever, but because of the recession, … Continue reading →

The amount of student loan debt in America will exceed $1 trillion this year, and is already greater than the total for credit card debt for the first time ever. On Wednesday, President Obama announced that he was capping the … Continue reading →