student loan debt

  1. B

    THE ORIGIN OF STUDENT DEBT: REAGAN ADVISER WARNED FREE COLLEGE WOULD CREATE A DANGEROUS “EDUCATED PROLETARIAT”

    https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/ In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education. Jon Schwarz August 25 2022, 4:57 p.m. WITH THE vociferous debate over President Joe Biden’s...
  2. Apprentice

    Any brehs take out a private loan for school?

    Sallie Mae, bank etc. Are u regretting it now?:lupe:
  3. Rhapture

    Should we get a refund for Afghanistan

    All those tax dollars spent on training their soldiers, providing uniforms and weapons, helicopter cover fire and all kinds of stuff. And they just let the Taliban beat they ass. Left they weapons vehicles and shyt so the Taliban could take it and be like
  4. Jimi Swagger

    Brown University is replacing student loans with scholarships

    Lend no more Brown University will no longer offer student loan packages to students in need of financial aid — instead, the university will exclusively provide scholarships. On Thursday, Brown announced it had raised $30 million in donations, enabling the change. "This initiative takes...
  5. Jimi Swagger

    Higher-Education Bill Tightens Accountability Rules for Minority Schools

    Funding levels would stay flat, but schools must meet 25% threshold for graduation or transfers Howard University students at the 2016 commencement ceremony. By Melissa Korn melissa.korn@wsj.com The federal government sets aside roughly $600 million in grants for colleges that serve large...
  6. Jimi Swagger

    11 Percent of African Americans Hope Lottery Wins Will Pay for Kids’ College

    Research conducted by insurance company Mass Mutual reveals disturbing insight: Almost 11% of those surveyed about financing an education cited winning the lottery as a means of paying for their kids’ college. :snoop: According to learning website ThoughtCo., the chance of winning a Daily 4...
  7. Jimi Swagger

    The Great College Loan Swindle

    How universities, banks and the government turned student debt into America's next financial black hole By Matt Taibbi November 3, 2017 On a wind-swept, frigid night in February 2009, a 37-year-old schoolteacher named Scott Nailor parked his rusted '92 Toyota Tercel in the parking lot of a...
  8. Black Panther

    2017 GOP Tax Cuts: Senate bill approved 1am 12/20; House bill approved; POTUS signs bill into law

    Now that the GOP has failed on repealing the ACA after multiple attempts, :lolbron: the party is moving on to tackle tax reform. The House of Representatives just passed "budget blueprint that will allow a tax bill to pass Congress without any Democratic votes." :francis: House Passes Budget...
  9. Jimi Swagger

    There's a Massive Racial Gap in Student Loan Defaults, New Data Shows

    African-American students who borrowed to earn their bachelor’s degrees are four times more likely to default on their student loans than white peers. That's one of the most striking findings in an analysis of new data on close to a decade of loan repayment rates. Many of the findings in the...
  10. Jimi Swagger

    Sallie Mae America’s Largest Student Loan Company Is Being Sued By The Government

    My expenses were paid, however, I know too many honest, hardworking people indentured and enslaved to Sallie Mae...Never seen a comment section so lit. Not to play devil's advocate but financial literacy is also important. The country’s largest student loan company is being sued by the...
  11. Jimi Swagger

    Brookings Institution finds disparities in student debt levels for black and white borrowers

    Stop spending those refund checks on bottle service, shoes, weed, mama's light bill and Rooms 2 Go Furniture for those student apartments and pay off those student loans instead. :ufdup: A new study released by the Brookings Institution finds disparities in student debt levels for black and...
  12. Jimi Swagger

    Labor of Love

    A long read but interesting. Breh revitalized the campus, cut tuition costs, lowered student loan debt and actually got students professional experience before graduating/leaving college. Paul Quinn College president Michael Sorrell thinks his work college model can thrive in cities across...
  13. SheWantTheD

    How do all these college kids afford to go on all these vacations?

    Real talk, I be seeing people I went to high school with go on like 3-4 different vacations in the span of a year to like Italy or France during the school year. They using the money they get from refund checks? I return my refund checks unless I paid outta pocket for something. I started...
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