On a recent Today Show Money 911 segment, a caller said she’d filed for bankruptcy — but that didn’t free her from her student loans. She then asked how bankruptcy would affect her ability to get more student loans. Clearly, s…
A new study by the nonprofit American Institutes for Research set out to tally the costs associated with freshman students who don’t return to the college where they initially enrolled. It found that taxpayers foot a pretty ste…
For a growing number of U.S. college graduates, a diploma marks the beginning of financial difficulties. The Education Department says those who were scheduled to begin paying back their student loans in 2007 were 52% more like…