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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

How Many People Are Behind on Their Student Loans? At Least 6 Milion

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College loans have been a problem for students for more than 20 years.  Yet the national dialogue on the student loan crisis is just getting...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Dear New York Times: Your Suggestion for Controlling Abuse in the Private Student-Loan Industry is Pathetic

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Some people think all the problems of the world will be solved when people are better informed. That seems to be the view of the New York Ti...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Underemployed Law School Graduate With Massive Student-Loan Obligations: The Hedlund Bankruptcy Case

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Almost 37 million people owe money on their college loans, and millions are in default or behind on their loan payments (Brown et al. 2012)....
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Wacky: A University of Chicago Professor Says Investors Should Finance Students' College Costs for Cut of Future Income

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Luigi Zingales,an economics professor at the University of Chicago, recently proposed an innovative way to finance students' college edu...
Friday, June 8, 2012

Thanks, NY Times, for Another Tepid Editorial About the Student Loan Crisis

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In The Big Lebowski , Bunny Lebowski tells the Dude that her boyfriend is a nihilist. "He doesn't care about anything," she ex...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

The Federal Government Should Stop Bankrolling the For-Profit College Industry

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Floyd Norris recently wrote a mild but provocative article in the New York Times that focused on ITT Educational Services, a for-profit cor...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Today’s New York Times Editorial About Student Loans is Not Very Useful

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Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times is entitled “Full Disclosure for Student Borrowers.” Basically, the Times says that “[c]oll...