News Topic: student loans

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Editor’s note: On Friday, The Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Greene explored the peril student-loan co-signers face when borrowers default. Bankruptcy Beat’s Katy Stech expands on the dilemma faced when the co-signers themselves end up in bankruptcy to try ... Read full article

You’ve been slapped with a notice of a student loan offset.  It can be reduced.  ... Read full article

Ayele v. Educ. Credit Mgmt. Corp. (In re Ayele) (Bankr.Mass., 2012)  This is an interesting case out of Massachusetts, wherein U.S. ... Read full article

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At the New York Times , Ron Lieber has a story about the treatment of student loans in bankruptcy . The story does a good job of explaining the harshness and capriciousness of the current system, but it is a story that bankruptcy lawyers and judgres ... Read full article

The Association for Legal Career Professionals has released data on starting salaries of 2011 law school graduates, reporting a median salary of $60,000.  So how can these recent graduates afford to repay their student loans? ... Read full article

Last week, an editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution contacted me to ask if I would write a guest editorial about student loans and bankruptcy.  Here is a slightly enhanc ... Read full article

In my last post, I argued that the current ... Read full article

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Last week, an editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution contacted me to ask if I would write a guest editorial about student loans and bankruptcy.  Here is a slightly enhanc ... Read full article

In my last post, I argued that the current ... Read full article

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Luigi Zingales had an op-ed in the NY Times  a few days back proposing equity financing of higher education combined with IRS collection of educational debt. Sound familiar? It should to Credit Slips readers.   I suggested the very same thing right here ... Read full article

Last week, an editor at the Atlanta Journal Constitution contacted me to ask if I would write a guest editorial about student loans and bankruptcy.  Here is a slightly enhanc ... Read full article

In my last post, I argued that the current ... Read full article

In my last post, I argued that the current ... Read full article