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With the cost of getting a good education constantly rising, many students are finding they finish college with a mountain of debts that will take quite a few years to repay - assuming they get a good job at the end of it. To improve their chances of getting a good job, many students end up studying at a more prestigious school, which is also more expensive, so they have an even larger debt: and the cycle begins. (more…)

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With so much trauma in the loans market, things were looking difficult for students for a while there: with many lenders crashing out of the market altogether, getting cheap student loans was starting to look impossible for some college students. But thanks to a new legislation recently passed through congress, there shouldn’t be any college students who find it impossible to get a reasonable college loan now. (more…)

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Unfortunately for many community college students in the U.S., student loans are completely unavailable to them. These students — a disproportionate number of them being minorities — cannot take advantage of low-interest federal student loans because their community colleges refuse to participate in the federal student loan program. (more…)