Unless Congress takes action, there is going to be a tremendously painful interest rate hike on Stafford loans held by 7.4 million students—one out of every three college students in the US. On July 1st, rates for Subsidized Stafford loans...
Doubling Stafford Interest Rates This Summer Will Lead to a 20% Increase In The Cost of College Next Year [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, the Young Invincibles, the Center for American Progress, Campus Progress and U.S. PIRG released a joint report titled “Doubling Interest...
Congressional Inaction Would Harm Millions of American Students and Families More than 7 million students and their families rely on Subsidized Stafford Loans to help pay for college. The loans distributed by the U.S. Department of Education currently hold...
Chicago Tribune on April 16, 2012 by Steve Rosen Which student loan repayment option is a better deal: a loan with a 4 percent fee and 9 percent interest rate, or one with a 5 percent fee and 8 percent...
88.5FM WMNF Commuity Radio on April 12, 2012 by Liz McKibbon In the U.S. student debt now exceeds credit card debt. A group called the Young Invincibles are traveling the nation to capture the voices of these students. They made...
The Huffington Post on April 11, 2012 by Bonnie Kavoussi Did you know that the money you’re spending on student loans could have bought 240 iPods? Now, we’re not quite sure what one would do with 240 iPods, but the...
US News on April 11, 2012 by Radhika Singh Miller, Equal Justice Works Last week, we wrote about the proposed
88.5FM WMNF Community Radio- Radioactivity: Live Call-In on April 10, 2012 by Robert Lorei YI at the 27 minute mark, about halfway through- Listen here! This week the Young Invincibles, a national nonprofit organization is conducting a bus tour throughout...
Chicago Tribune on April 2, 2012 by Steve Rosen of the Kansas City Star, Tribune Media Services Here’s a worrisome survey item from last week that caught my attention: Many college students are signing on the dotted line for student...
Al Arabiya News on March 29, 2012 By Danielle Angel As most Americans focus on the Trayvon Martin investigation, the Supreme Court health care hearings, and other sensational stories, another potential crisis is looming that experts are comparing to the...