Student loan debt

What happens to a student loan deferred?

Does it dry up
like Donald Trump’s skin?
Or draw interest—
Do payments ever end?

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As the amount of student loan debt continues to rise right alongside the cost of education, one major university is…

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A federal court has ordered the Trump administration’s Wicked Witch of the West Wing, Education Secretary Betsy…

As you struggle to make that outlandish student loan payment this month, here is something for you to chew on: In…

As student loan debt grew into a $1.5 trillion crisis, Trump administration officials coordinated a deliberate…

How corrupt is the Trump administration, you ask?

When philanthropist and entrepreneur Robert F. Smith offered to pay the entire balance of the outstanding student…

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A Republican-backed proposal currently in the Senate could make automatic wage garnishment for your student loan…

If you’re like me, and presumably millions of other folks across Los Estados Unidos, student loan debt is a monkey…

There really is a Santa Claus and his real, government name is Fifth Third Bank.

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