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Senate Democrats propose student loan bailouts

| Robby Soave
College Loan Debt

Gillibrand says bill is ‘just common sense’

Elizabeth Warren creates MoveOn petition for her own bill

| Robby Soave
Elizabeth Warren Banking Committee

Bill would force Federal Reserve to lend tuition money to students at discounted interested rates

Elizabeth Warren wants Federal Reserve to subsidize student loans

| Robby Soave
Elizabeth Warren

Senator wants Fed money to ‘fund our students, keep us competitive and grow our middle class’

Historically black colleges and universities flunk Obama's College Scorecard

| Brendan Thomas
Morehouse College

HBCUs get special federal funding, while students graduate at low rates and default on loans at high levels

College graduates are the new subprime borrowers

| Andrew Sachais
Harvard quad

With the reward of a college degree decreasing, many students and parents will end up as debt slaves.

Average student loan debt climbs to $26,600

| Eric Owens
Graduation. Photo/Flickr – Josh Thompson

American students owe over $1 trillion in student loan debt

Analysis: Understanding the higher education bubble through Caddyshack

| Eric Owens
The original movie poster for the 1980 flick

The 1980 film Caddyshack is an accidental time capsule that proves the absurdity of college costs today

Report: Student loan debt nearly one-quarter of income for low income households - TheDCNF

| Michael Bastasch
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Student loan debt has been on the rise for many American households since 2007

Obama blames Republicans as deadline on student loans looms - TheDCNF

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Student Loans

Without congressional action, interest rates are set to spike from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on July 1

Both sides fail in student loan debate

| Gary Shapiro

We need to have an adult conversation about Pell Grants.

Legislative Lowdown: Obama's creative budget math

| Brian Darling

A round-up of some of this week’s biggest developments on Capitol Hill.

Obama plays politics with student loans

| Alex Schriver

The president is threatening to block GOP efforts to extend a student loan subsidy program he claims to support.

The reason Obama is pushing for more federal education spending

| Neal McCluskey

Federal education spending is very wasteful, but also very popular.

Dems spring election year student loan trap on GOP - TheDC

| Neil Munro
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Plan may help Obama win support from middle-class parents and young voters

Six ways to avoid a student loan crisis and boost jobs for college grads

| Gary Shapiro

The status quo is unsustainable.

Recovery threatened by runaway student loan debt - AP

| InternAdmin
College Students

When student loans don’t get repaid, debts are going to be transferred from the borrower to the taxpayer

Obama tells students rich should pay more for their education - TheDC

| Neil Munro
President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Michigan

‘We’ve got a different idea of America, a more generous America’ than the one offered by his political rivals

The top 5 underreported education stories of 2011

| Joy Pullmann

Some interesting education stories from 2011 that you may have missed.

Taxpayers have no responsibility to pay off my student loans

| Andrew Campanella

Why the Occupy Wall Street crowd is wrong about student loans.

Cain unsure what to do about growing student debt - TheDC

| Michelle Fields

‘I don’t have a position on what we ought to do about all of the student debt that some of the students have run up’