If you're considering going into student debt, I encourage you to seek the Lord's will through the reading and study of His Word, prayer, and the wise counsel of others before you make the decision to take out a loan.
The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy.
Navient/Sallie Mae treated student loan borrowers unfairly from start to finish.
People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.
Government's running the student loan program; what in the world could be wrong with it? If the government's running it, if Obama's taken it over, and he's got a lot of compassion, a big heart, loves people, what could possibly be wrong with it? And then the subject of tuition came up, and how come tuition never gets cut? Why does tuition always go up? Guarantee, folks, when you subsidize something, if you run a university and the government's gonna subsidize parts of your operation, why in the world should you cut anything?
I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.
If you owe $50,000 for your education, you are not going to be able to start a small business when you graduate.
One import of this quotation is that most new jobs in America are created in small and medium sized businesses.
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.
Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.
It should be no surprise that Mr. Biden has turned once again to more government largess as his political capital has collapsed. Giving away taxpayer money has become this administration’s only consistent policy. With progressive Democrats increasingly comfortable bearing the label “socialist,” have we now entered the bread-and-circus phase of American democracy?
High school seniors should receive help in how to think about a student loan and how to make sure that the education bought with the loan offers good prospects for repayment.
The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.
We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.
We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.
Student loan debt is a real problem. People want to have serious conversations about that.
You [Jill Stein] want to do something about student debt. And that affects conservative and liberal students. That's going to be a majoritarian position.
I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.
That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.
About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
Students are suffering under incredibly high tuitions and high student loan interest rates. They graduate from school, and they're having a very difficult time finding a job. They don't feel as though there are honest leaders who are listening to them, and who will be a part of the solution.
I think our model is sustainable. If all schools operated like Liberty and charged what we charge, there wouldn't be a student loan problem in America.
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.