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Pay It Forward a good program to alleviate student debt

Pay It Forward a good program to alleviate student debt

By Hayley Devitt | July 15, 2013

If you’ve kept up with news for the last few weeks, you probably have learned interest rates for student loans are on the rise.But a more optimistic occurrence in the news was Oregon’s State Senate passing H.B. 3472 earlier this month. Called “Pay...

Congress can’t agree so students have to pay

By Anthony Szudarski | July 8, 2013

I go into every semester of school much the same way: constantly worried about how I’m going to pay for my education.As of this month, the interest rates on Subsidized Stafford Loans have doubled for college students from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent....

We Can’t Wait: Helping Manage Student Loan Debt

By Barack Obama | November 2, 2011

Over the last few weeks, I've had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster.This is a tough time for a lot of Americans - especially young people. You've...