Want to Refinance Your Student Loans? The CFPB Wants to Help
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to help people struggling with heavy student loan debt get the same kind of ability to refinance that mortgage-holders have.
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New Study Finds Women More Likely to End Up Poor Than Men
SaveUp.com recently analyzed more than 20,000 of their users' savings and debt balances. Their conclusion: Women are more likely than men to be poor during their lifetimes.
Buried Under Student Loan Debt? The Government Is Here to Help
To solve the student-loan crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is asking the public for their ideas. Aside from the personal pain caused by a mountain of student debt, the CFPB wants to head off the possibility of another financial crisis just like the housing bust.
4 Tax Breaks Every College Student Should Know About
In 2009, Americans missed out on $800 million in education-related tax breaks. If you're paying tuition, make sure you get your share: Before you complete the take-home final that is your 2013 tax return, review the four most-lucrative tax breaks for college students.
Money Resolutions Revisited: 3 Tales From the Financial Trenches
If you're one of the millions of Americans who made a financial New Year's resolution, after almost a month, you might need an inspiration boost. So, check out these stories of three real people on the way to achieving ambitious financial goals this year.
Debt Collectors Infiltrate Facebook to Track Down Delinquent Borrowers
Debt collectors have time and again proven to be ruthless in tracking down delinquent borrowers, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before social media became their go-to hunting grounds.
The Top 10 Most Depressing Student Loan Stories
With total student loan debt long past the $1 billion mark, activists are doing all they can to put as many faces on the crisis as possible. Their mission is simple: To convince Congress student loan debt should be dischargeable through personal bankruptcy.
What Happened When This Guy Paid His Student Loan in Cash
Last week, a Reddit user posted a photo of a $114,000 student loan bill-paid in cash-that elicited thousands of comments. Since then, the anonymous alum has stepped forward as Alex Kenjeev, a 2009 law school graduate of the University of Toronto.
Paying for College: Two Websites Offer Outside-of-the-Box Ideas
With student loan debt at a trillion dollars and rising, it's no surprise that more students are searching for creative ways to finance their college educations. Alltuition and CollegeNET are among the companies that want to help.
Pell Grant Backers Rally to Fight GOP Funding Cuts
More than 1 million of America's poorest college students may have to take out bigger loans, find another way to pay tuition, or drop out in 2012, if Republican budget cuts are passed that shrink the government's Pell grant program. But supporters are mobilizing in an online rally Monday for "Save Pell Day."