Download or read book Student Debt written by Avery Elizabeth Hurt and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As of 2019, Americans owed over 1.56 trillion dollars in student loan debt, and 69 percent of college students who graduated in 2018 had to take out student loans. Student debt has increased significantly over the past twenty years, but what factors have brought this about? Are students to blame for making irresponsible financial decisions, or is the price of education rising disproportionately to average income? How do variables like class and race impact student debt? What impact do these debts have on individuals and the economy? This volume examines the nature of America's student debt crisis and explores possible solutions.
Download or read book Screw College Debt written by Marco Leroc and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're off to college to acquire skills, graduate, get a well-paying job, and live the good life ever after. Not so fast. A mountain of college loans after graduation may weigh you down for decades as you struggle to pay them off. Don't let the financing of your education stand in the way of your future dreams. Save money, find little-known sources for money win scholarships you never thought you'd qualify for, pick the right loans and payment plans, and you can avoid devastating debt entirely. Get smart "before" you get smart in college with tips and techniques in "Screw College Debt." Create your own action plan using the 100-at-a-glance strategies to avoid and pay for college debt-before you get into money trouble. Or learn how to dig out with creative (legal) repayment strategies. Knowledge is power. Go into the college game with the right winning strategies and plans. Marco LeRoc, founder of Marco LeRoc & Co., and author of "Cash In with Your Money," helps you (and your parents) explore every money-saving strategy and answers every question from WHY ("Why the heck is college so expensive?") to HOW ("How do I avoid college debt entirely?").
Download or read book Screw Student Loans written by Brian A. Cliette and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a student who is worried about repaying student loans and all the debt that you have on you? Or are you a student who is thinking of taking up a student loan, but doubts how the same will be repaid? Student loans are perhaps the most-used ways used by students who cannot afford the expensive higher education expenses and overheads for most good universities. However, these loans usually leave the student in trouble if he or she doesn't get a job early after the completion of education. This book attempts to help you or anyone who is facing repayment of student loans and doesn't know what to do. Before anything, don't panic, take a deep breath and understand that there are several options that you avail. You may ask for a change in the terms of the loan, consolidate loans and ask for a refinance, in addition to several others. In addition, you may also work towards generating income and saving all that you can to make repayment easier. This book gives you hand-on tips on what you need do, how you must implement them and how they will help you become debt-free.
Download or read book Student Debt written by William Elliott III and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering answers to essential questions about student debt and many connected issues, this book examines student debt in the United States at every stage of the process—from the banks that issue the loans to the colleges and universities that collect the payments. Student lending in the United States is one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American discourse. Are these loans the only option for Americans who want to attend college and university in order to attain the best careers and have a productive, enjoyable life? Should the predatory lending practices of for-profit colleges and universities be stopped? How can limits be imposed on student lending amounts without preventing students from getting the education they need to succeed? The book explains why so many students are borrowing large amounts of money to attend college; considers whether the cost of higher education is simply too high, and if there should be a cap on how much money students can borrow; explains what is contributing to the rising rate of borrowers defaulting on their loans; and predicts whether the so-called student loan bubble is in danger of popping. The Data and Documents chapter analyzes data gathered from discussions about student debt. This information enables readers to better understand who is borrowing student loans, what the money from the student loans is going toward, what individuals have the authority to decide who qualifies for these loans, and what is being done to curb wasteful student spending.
Download or read book Destroy Your Student Loan Debt written by Anthony ONeal and published by Ramsey Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don’t have to spend decades paying off your student loans! You can destroy your debt fast and live a life of freedom. You’ve been lied to: there’s no such thing as good debt. Debt sucks. Period. And that includes student loan debt. No matter what you believed—or were told—when you took out your loans, you need to get serious about getting rid of your debt fast, because it’s costing you more than you know. That’s why bestselling author Anthony ONeal wrote this motivating 64-page Quick Read—to show you why you need to dump your debt fast and how to do it. If you have student loan debt and have never heard of Ramsey Solutions or the 7 Baby Steps, this 64-page Quick Read is for you. Anthony will walk you step-by-step through Baby Steps 1 and 2 to show you how to dump your debt forever. You’ll learn: -The ugly truth about how debt hurts you -The importance of an emergency fund and how to budget (Baby Step 1) -The power of the debt snowball (Baby Step 2) -Exactly what to do to pay off your student loans faster -How to control your money so it doesn’t control you -You’ll also hear stories from real people about how they paid off their debt fast You don’t need relief from your debt, you need to get mad at it. Because the truth is, when you get mad enough, you can pay off your loans faster than you ever thought possible—and take control of your money, and your life, for good! Don’t let anything stand in the way of your future. This plan has helped millions get out of debt and you’re next. You can do this! (Ramsey Press)
Download or read book Student Loans and the Dynamics of Debt written by Brad Hershbein and published by W.E. Upjohn Institute. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers included in this volume represent the most current research and knowledge available about student loans and repayment. It serves as a valuable reference for researchers and policymakers who seek a deeper understanding of how, why, and which students borrow for their postsecondary education; how this borrowing may affect later decisions; and what measures can help borrowers repay their loans successfully.
Download or read book Game of Loans written by Beth Akers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why fears about a looming student loan crisis are unfounded—and how they obscure what's really wrong with student lending College tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades. These trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether we are headed for a major crisis, with borrowers defaulting on their loans in unprecedented numbers and taxpayers being forced to foot the bill. Game of Loans draws on new evidence to explain why such fears are misplaced—and how the popular myth of a looming crisis has obscured the real problems facing student lending in America. Bringing needed clarity to an issue that concerns all of us, Beth Akers and Matthew Chingos cut through the sensationalism and misleading rhetoric to make the compelling case that college remains a good investment for most students. They show how, in fact, typical borrowers face affordable debt burdens, and argue that the truly serious cases of financial hardship portrayed in the media are less common than the popular narrative would have us believe. But there are more troubling problems with student loans that don't receive the same attention. They include high rates of avoidable defaults by students who take on loans but don’t finish college—the riskiest segment of borrowers—and a dysfunctional market where competition among colleges drives tuition costs up instead of down. Persuasive and compelling, Game of Loans moves beyond the emotionally charged and politicized talk surrounding student debt, and offers a set of sensible policy proposals that can solve the real problems in student lending.
Download or read book Bait and Switch written by Robert H. Scott, III and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces how the student loan system has created insurmountable student debt traps for millions of student borrowers contrary to its original purpose of promoting social mobility. Today, approximately 45 million Americans hold over $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, with over 20% of borrowers in default. Student loan debt has the greatest negative impact of wealth-poor students, with Black and first-generation students less likely to attain a college degree, more likely to default on student loan debt, and less likely to gain the same type of wage premium from their college degrees than white student loan borrowers. The book also offers a wide range of policy solutions for remedying the student loan debt crisis.
Download or read book The Student Loan Scam written by Alan Collinge and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Student Loan Scam is an exposé of the predatory nature of the $85-billion student loan industry. In this in-depth exploration, Collinge argues that student loans have become the most profitable, uncompetitive, and oppressive type of debt in American history. This has occurred in large part due to federal legislation passed since the mid-1990s that removed standard consumer protections from student loans-and allowed for massive penalties and draconian wealth-extraction mechanisms to collect this inflated debt. High school graduates can no longer put themselves through college for a few thousand dollars in loan debt. Today, the average undergraduate borrower leaves school with more than $20,000 in student loans, and for graduate students the average is a whopping $42,000. For the past twenty years, college tuition has increased at more than double the rate of inflation, with the cost largely shifting to student debt. Collinge covers the history of student loans, the rise of Sallie Mae, and how universities have profited at the expense of students. The book includes candid and compelling stories from people across the country about how both nonprofit and for-profit student loan companies, aided by poor legislation, have shattered their lives-and livelihoods. With nearly 5 million defaulted loans, this crisis is growing to epic proportions. The Student Loan Scam takes an unflinching look at this unprecedented and pressing problem, while exposing the powerful organizations and individuals who caused it to happen. Ultimately, Collinge argues for the return of standard consumer protections for student loans, among other pragmatic solutions, in this clarion call for social action.
Download or read book CliffsNotes Graduation Debt written by Reyna Gobel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With updated information that reflects the myriad changes in the student loan industry that affect students and their parents burdened with student loan debt, CliffsNotes Graduation Debt, Second Edition provides a step-by-step road map for effectively managing student loan debt and having a successful financial life. Reyna Gobel has accumulated tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, recovered from student loan default, and set herself on a mission to help others who face a seemingly insurmountable student loan burden, with a powerful message about taking a step-by-step approach and not being overwhelmed by the sheer weight of student loan debt. Divided into small subsections geared toward those neck-deep in debt, this book is easily digestible to students who aren’t inclined to focus on their finances. Readers are encouraged to take action steps, such as finding long-lost student loans that may have gone into default, discovering payment plans they can afford, consolidating loans when it makes sense to do so, saving money on eating out and groceries, improving credit scores, tweaking their debt-to-income ratios so they can buy a home, and discussing their student loan and non-student loan debt with their significant others. By the end of the book, readers will be on the road to financial stability, with extra money for vacations and other fun stuff, too.
Download or read book The Debt Trap written by Josh Mitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The dramatic untold story of the student loan debt crisis in America. In 1981, a new executive at the student loan giant Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. 'You've got to be shitting me,' he later told the company's CEO. 'This place is a gold mine.' Far from making college affordable, the student loan system has created a college-industrial complex that has submerged multiple generations in debt. For millions, their college investment turned into a nightmare: 43 million people owe a combined $1.6 trillion in student debt, more than both credit card debt and car loans. How did we get here? Acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell's landmark investigation is the first book to tell the full story of the student loan debt crisis in America. Mitchell shows how the program began in the 1950s, evolved into a grand social experiment in the 1960s, got overtaken by greedy colleges in the 1980s and 1990s, and was unleashed in the 2000s by Sallie Mae, the billion-dollar company that turned student lending into big business. Based on eight years of reporting and hundreds of interviews with the decision-makers who crafted the program, The Debt Trap never loses sight of the countless student victims whose lives have been forever altered by a predatory lending system. Mitchell's defining book shows how the narrative of higher education as a ticket to the American Dream fueled the rise of a rapacious system that one of its original architects called a 'monster'".--From dust jacket.
Download or read book Student Loan Solution written by David Carlson and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eliminate your student debt and start building wealth with this step-by-step guide to financial freedom by the author of Hustle Away Debt. Student loans are complicated. College financial aid terms like “federal direct subsidized” and “GRAD Plus” mean little to most of us. Each type of student loan is slightly different, with its own set of rules and repayment options. In Student Loan Solution, personal finance expert David Carlson explains what student loan borrowers need to know and what they should be focusing on. Carlson provides a 5-step approach to help you understand your loans, your repayment options—including opportunities for loan forgiveness—and your greater financial life. The strategies he covers will help you make and save more money while paying down your student loans faster. Student Loan Solutions will teach you how to:Pay off your student loan debtPersonalize your student loan repayment planLive a happier, financially smarter life
Download or read book Destroy Your Student Loan Debt the Step By Step Plan to Pay Off Your Student Loans Faster written by Shon Queen and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student debt is a form of debt that is owed by an attending, formerly withdrawn, or graduated student to a lending institution, or a financial institution. The lent amount, often referred to as a student loan or the debts may be owed to the school (or the bank) if the student has dropped classes and withdrawn from the school, or if the student has graduated but is underemployed. The $1.2 Trillion student loan debt crisis is hurting the American economy. Parents and students sign for student loans unaware of the effect it can have on their financial future. This book will help you understand student loans and how to get out of debt and show you how student loans affect your credit score and how you can improve your score.
Download or read book The Real College Debt Crisis written by William Elliott III and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it still worth it for low-income students to attend college, given the debt incurred? This book provides a new framework for evaluating the financial aid system in America, positing that aid must not only allow access to higher education, but also help students succeed in college and facilitate their financial health post-college. Higher education plays a critical role in the economy and society of the United States, creating a ladder of economic opportunity for American children, especially for those in poverty. Unfortunately, higher education today increasingly reinforces patterns of relative privilege, particularly as students without the benefit of affluent parents rely more and more on student loans to finance college access. This book presents penetrating new information about the fiscal realities of the current debt-based college loan system and raises tough questions about the extent to which student loans can be a viable way to facilitate equitable access to higher education. The book opens with relevant parts of the life stories of two students—one who grew up poor and had to take on high amounts of student debt, and another whose family could offer financial help at critical times. These real-life examples provide invaluable insight into the student debt problem and help make the complex data more understandable. A wide range of readers—from scholars of poverty, social policy, and educational equality to policymakers to practitioners in the fields of student financial aid and financial planning—will find the information in this text invaluable.
Download or read book Student Loans written by Noël Merino and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is very common for young people to have educational loans in order to obtain certification or degrees. This guidebook investigates student loans, how increasing loan debt has gotten out of hand, and what students should do about it. Government and private loans, repayment solutions, and the economic impact of the student loan bubble are discussed.
Download or read book The Student Loan Mess written by Joel Best and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Student loan debt in the U.S. now exceeds $1 trillion, more than the nation's credit-card debt. This timely book explains how and why student loans evolved, the concerns they've raised along the way, and how each policy designed to fix student loans winds up making things worse. The authors, a father and son team, provide an intergenerational, interdisciplinary approach to understanding how, over the last 70 years, Americans incrementally, with the best intentions, created our current student loan disaster. They examine the competing interests and shifting societal expectations that contributed to the problem, and offer recommendations for confronting the larger problem of college costs and student borrowing in the future"--
Download or read book The White Coat Investor written by James M. Dahle and published by White Coat Investor LLC the. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a practicing emergency physician, The White Coat Investor is a high-yield manual that specifically deals with the financial issues facing medical students, residents, physicians, dentists, and similar high-income professionals. Doctors are highly-educated and extensively trained at making difficult diagnoses and performing life saving procedures. However, they receive little to no training in business, personal finance, investing, insurance, taxes, estate planning, and asset protection. This book fills in the gaps and will teach you to use your high income to escape from your student loans, provide for your family, build wealth, and stop getting ripped off by unscrupulous financial professionals. Straight talk and clear explanations allow the book to be easily digested by a novice to the subject matter yet the book also contains advanced concepts specific to physicians you won't find in other financial books. This book will teach you how to: Graduate from medical school with as little debt as possible Escape from student loans within two to five years of residency graduation Purchase the right types and amounts of insurance Decide when to buy a house and how much to spend on it Learn to invest in a sensible, low-cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of an advisor Avoid investments which are designed to be sold, not bought Select advisors who give great service and advice at a fair price Become a millionaire within five to ten years of residency graduation Use a "Backdoor Roth IRA" and "Stealth IRA" to boost your retirement funds and decrease your taxes Protect your hard-won assets from professional and personal lawsuits Avoid estate taxes, avoid probate, and ensure your children and your money go where you want when you die Minimize your tax burden, keeping more of your hard-earned money Decide between an employee job and an independent contractor job Choose between sole proprietorship, Limited Liability Company, S Corporation, and C Corporation Take a look at the first pages of the book by clicking on the Look Inside feature Praise For The White Coat Investor "Much of my financial planning practice is helping doctors to correct mistakes that reading this book would have avoided in the first place." - Allan S. Roth, MBA, CPA, CFP(R), Author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street "Jim Dahle has done a lot of thinking about the peculiar financial problems facing physicians, and you, lucky reader, are about to reap the bounty of both his experience and his research." - William J. Bernstein, MD, Author of The Investor's Manifesto and seven other investing books "This book should be in every career counselor's office and delivered with every medical degree." - Rick Van Ness, Author of Common Sense Investing "The White Coat Investor provides an expert consult for your finances. I now feel confident I can be a millionaire at 40 without feeling like a jerk." - Joe Jones, DO "Jim Dahle has done for physician financial illiteracy what penicillin did for neurosyphilis." - Dennis Bethel, MD "An excellent practical personal finance guide for physicians in training and in practice from a non biased source we can actually trust." - Greg E Wilde, M.D Scroll up, click the buy button, and get started today!