February news
Now that the first 100 hours of the new Congress has passed (quite a few more hours than that, in fact), there's more news than ever regarding student loan issues, if not particularly our issue. Let's get to it:
-Inside Higher Ed writes (and writes and writes) about the new student loan bill pending in Congress that will cut interest rates (for current students, mind, not graduates), but will the Bush administration oppose it? More on the bill here, here, and here.
-More on the debt problems of graduates from The Denver Post, American Public Media, CNN, and Tuscon Weekly.
-The Student Loan Justice Political Action Committee and a TPM blog from Student Loan Justice.
-Prosecutors and public defenders in South Carolina may get help with their loans.
-And finally, some voices from the other side of the debate, arguing that education shouldn't be subsidized by the government at all, and that a Republican has a more progressive student loan plan than the Democrats.
National Student Loan Debt Clock: $458 billion - feel the love, eh?