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  • Why The Auto Loan Bubble Is As Important As The Student Loan Bubble

    04/18/2016 6:47:42 PM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    The Federalist ^ | April 4, 2016 | Edward Niedermeyer
    New car loans have become the new hot product and Wall Street, not car-loving Americans, is the real market. The growth of student loan debt has received no shortage of attention from politicians and the media in recent years, making it one of the top economic anxieties in post-mortgage-meltdown America. Behind the front-page investigations and populist political platforms, the numbers are indisputably chilling: student loan balances have surged from less than $18,000 per person to $25,000 per person in the ten years since 2005. But another class of debt is also growing at troubling rates without attracting anywhere near the...
  • Government Urging 25% of U.S. Workforce to Strive for Student Loan Forgiveness

    08/29/2013 9:55:26 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 27 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | August 29, 2013 - 10:16 AM | Susan Jones
    There’s no student loan forgiveness program for mothers who raise their own children, but there is for some daycare workers; and student loan forgiveness may be yours if you work for the government in some capacity, but not if you earn a low salary in the private sector. The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is trying to make it easier for people in certain jobs—teachers, nurses, social workers, police and firefighters, and federal, state and local government workers—to understand the route to student loan forgiveness. On Wednesday, the CFPB released a “toolkit” to “empower” school districts and other public...