Tag: Student loans

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The surprising winners of Obama’s student-loan program

Susan Ferrechio · June 12, 2014 9:00 am

Rebecca Jasen, of Amherst, N.Y., attends a Tumblr forum where President Barack Obama answered questions from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Senate Republicans block student loan bill

Erica Werner · June 11, 2014 10:19 pm

A borrower with $10,000 in debt at a 6.8 percent rate who participated in the refinancing program would cost the government $1,280, according to AAF. A student with $25,000 in loans would cost taxpayers $3,201. (Thinkstock)

Think tank: Refinancing would cost taxpayers $1,200-$3,200 per student borrower

Joseph Lawler · June 10, 2014 11:55 am

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, joined by other women of the Senate, holds a news conference Wednesday on her bill, the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, which would allow people with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. From left are, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.; Warren; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Republicans poised to block Democratic student loan bill

Susan Ferrechio · June 10, 2014 9:00 am

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 9, 2014, before signing a Presidential Memorandum on reducing the burden of student loan debt. The president said the rising costs of college have left America's middle class feeling trapped. He says no hard-working youngster in America should be priced out of a higher education. Obama signed a presidential memorandum he says could help an additional 5 million borrowers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Prodding Congress, Obama acts to ease student debt

Josh Lederman · June 9, 2014 11:18 pm

President Obama speaks during a meeting of law enforcement leaders from across the country to discuss immigration reform, Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo)

Obama to talk student loans, immigration amid more Bowe Bergdahl fallout

Susan Crabtree · June 9, 2014 12:32 pm

Senate fight over student interest rates starts this week as House debates Veterans Affairs fix

Susan Ferrechio · June 9, 2014 11:57 am

President Barack Obama waves to the media as he returns at dusk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 6, 2014, after attending remembrance activities on the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama to take executive steps on student loans

Josh Lederman · June 7, 2014 11:52 pm

A recent study estimated that getting a college degree is worth about a half-million dollars over the course of a graduate's lifetime. (Thinkstock)

College education for everyone is not the answer

Scott Rasmussen · June 6, 2014 7:34 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, joined by other women of the Senate, holds a news conference Wednesday on her bill, the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, which would allow people with outstanding student loan debt to refinance at the lower interest rates currently offered to new borrowers. From left are, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.; Warren; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Elizabeth Warren’s idea of a non-partisan bill is all tax and spend

Blake Seitz · June 5, 2014 6:45 pm

The CBO estimated that in the next few years $460 billion of federal student loans would be refinanced under the Warren measure -- almost half of all outstanding federal student loans. (Thinkstock)

CBO: $51 billion pricetag to refinance student loans

Joseph Lawler · June 4, 2014 7:26 pm

Congress concerned with impact student loans have on economy

Lisa Ruhl · June 4, 2014 7:15 pm