The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.
Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.
If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.
I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just can...
Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families.
There are three types of student: The golden student pays and loans, the silver student pays but does not learn, the bronze student learns but does not pay.
Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.
The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Sta...
More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
Student loan debt is the reason I don't advise students who want to become entrepreneurs to apply to elite, expensive colleges. They can be as successful if they go to a relatively inexpensive public college.
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
