"With the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) hanging in the balance as the Senate considers passage of a student loan reform bill, the second largest FFELP lender, Wells Fargo/Wachovia ($10.7 billion originated in FY09) emailed this note to fin

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"The bill includes money for nonprofit agencies, such as RISLA [Rhode Island Student Loan Authority], to serve as contractors to the government, providing service on the education loans the government issues," the Providence Journal reports. "RISLA has no

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"[T]o the extent that community colleges are bleeding financially -- and are about to bleed much more severely when the ARRA funding runs out -- passing off higher Pell caps as somehow helpful is just a cruel joke. All it does is increase the amount of mo

If you have a car, gas is a normal expense that would go on your debit card or be paid with cash at each fill-up, so why not use a gas card and kill two birds with one stone?

"College students from poor families who don't have the grades to qualify for the HOPE Scholarship could still get a small grant under legislation proposed by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, whose own family could not afford to send him to college," Rome News-Tribu