Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Student Loan - Board, legislators tussle over asset data


Board, legislators tussle over asset data
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - Apr 19, 2006... bitterness is building between the board of Missouri's student loan authority and many members of the Legislature over a plan to trade college loan assets for ...

ELM Resources Celebrates Record Year and Elects New Board Members ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - Apr 12, 2006... Kurt Schneiber Citibank, The Student Loan Corporation Michael McFarlane Citizens Bank Jim Avett College Foundation Joe Kakaty College Loan Corporation Therese ...

Fitch Issues Presale Report On College Loan Corporation 2006-1
Business Wire (press release), CA - Apr 3, 2006NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2006--Fitch Ratings has issued a presale report on College Loan Corporation Trust I, Series 2006-1. ...

Teaching your adult children about money
Charlotte Sun-Herald, FL - Apr 1, 2006... today's young adults? Many college graduates are burdened with high college loan payments and credit card debt. A recent report ...

THE WESTERN FRONT
Opinion Journal, NJ - Apr 4, 2006... with ballooning costs. Most notably, House Majority Leader John Boehner succeeded at reforming college loan programs. On one hot ...

Student Loan - 7th Annual Student Loans in the Capital Markets: Financing and ...


7th Annual Student Loans in the Capital Markets: Financing and ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - Mar 28, 2006NEW YORK, March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Research Institute presents the 7th Annual Student Loans in the Capital Markets: Financing and Securitization ...

Sallie Mae Unveils New Private Consolidation Loan
Yahoo! News (press release) - Apr 24, 2006... With interest rates on the underlying, variable-rate, federal student loans at or near 40-year lows, millions of federal student loan customers have benefited ...

Big deadline looms on student loan calendar
Eagle Tribune, MA - Apr 18, 2006... $12,127 for the 2005-06 school year, with tuition, room and board at private schools topping $29,000, most families are looking at student loans and other ...

Burden of student loans to get even heavier
Lansing State Journal, MI - Mar 24, 2006By Pamela Brogan. WASHINGTON - The good news is that Congress has increased the opportunities for Americans to obtain student loans. ...

Paying for college
CNN - Apr 22, 2006... years. Overwhelming a kid with student loans isn'ta good idea, but letting him take on some debt for his education is appropriate. ...

Student Loan - Comment: Let's keep colleges a high priority


Comment: Let's keep colleges a high priority
San Antonio Express (subscription), TX - Mar 22, 2006Perhaps some have noticed that recent congressional action to reduce the budget by $40 billion included a $12.7 billion cut in college loan funds, a major ...

Keeping a college education affordable for all
Fitchburg Sentinel, MA - Apr 14, 2006... of a college education also hurts the students who can manage to secure enough loans to attend college, only to face paying huge college loan payments once ...

DA: Debts led son to kill father, injure mother
WCAX, VT - Apr 18, 2006... by prosecutors shows that Christopher Porco had piled up nearly 40-thousand dollars in debt and forged his father's signature on a college loan application. ...

Democrat Hill faces 3 foes in primary
Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Apr 17, 2006... He wants to work on legislation to restore college loan programs that have been cut, make the Medicare drug benefit easier to use, and get the deficit under ...

Cut in college loan rates proposed
Contra Costa Times, CA - Apr 15, 2006By Lisa Vorderbrueggen. Rep. George Miller, the ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, will try to cut ...

THE WESTERN FRONT
Opinion Journal, NJ - Apr 4, 2006... with ballooning costs. Most notably, House Majority Leader John Boehner succeeded at reforming college loan programs. On one hot ...

Paper chase: Organize now for next tax year (Student Loan)


Paper chase: Organize now for next tax year
A shoebox. A Manila folder spilling forms and receipts. A cascading corner pile. Do any of those describe the sorry state of your records now that tax day has come and gone? Then there's no time like the present to get organized. Orderly record-keeping could save you money in future tax years by revealing deductions and credits that you've missed in the past. And it definitely will save your

Sandra Block: Your Money - If you consolidate student loans before July, you can lock in lower rate
We hate to nag. Really. But if you're on track to graduate from college this spring, you should consolidate your federal student loans before July 1. And if you graduated last year but didn't get around to consolidating, do it now.

Predicting The Unpredictable -- Planning Future Hospital Beds, Classrooms, Jail Cells Etc.
There were almost 900 patients waiting for care in hospital hallways or emergency rooms at one point in 1990 because the city's hospitals had more patients than they had beds for. Doctors said that hundreds more people avoided treatment altogether, knowing there was no room for them.

The rising price of the future
Think of where you could get a job these days without a college degree. If your future plans include staying in Massachusetts after graduating from college, you need to secure a well-paying job in order to purchase a home or rent an apartment. The median price for a single family home in Massachusetts in 2004 was $340,000, according to the Federal Housing Finance Board.

For students
Plan ahead for next school year. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue: College students - if not dependents on anyone's federal return - may apply for tax forgiveness if they qualify.

Student Loan - TIP DU JOUR: Look for incentives on college loan rates


TIP DU JOUR: Look for incentives on college loan rates
Cherry Hill Courier Post, NJ - Apr 3, 2006Just as saving pennies can really add up, saving a little here and there on your college loan interest rates can add up too. Sun ...

Durbin touts bill for college loan relief
Peoria Journal Star, IL - Apr 19, 2006BY ANDREA FRAMPTON. NORMAL - Illinois State University students had front-row seats Tuesday for an announcement about legislation ...

Panel mulls study of proposed agency loans sale
Kansas City Star, MO - Apr 12, 2006... Matt Blunt, the college loan agency has floated a proposal to sell some current and future loans, giving the state $450 million in proceeds. ...

Board, legislators tussle over asset data
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, United States - Apr 19, 2006... bitterness is building between the board of Missouri's student loan authority and many members of the Legislature over a plan to trade college loan assets for ...

SUSAN TOMPOR: Act quickly to keep rein on college loans
Detroit Free Press, United States - Apr 24, 2006... But many college loan experts already estimate that the new rates could be 1.5 to 2 percentage points higher than current rates. ...

Comment: Let's keep colleges a high priority
San Antonio Express (subscription), TX - Mar 22, 2006Perhaps some have noticed that recent congressional action to reduce the budget by $40 billion included a $12.7 billion cut in college loan funds, a major ...