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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Student Loan Interest Rates May Spike For Some


Americans want long-term solutions from a Congress that has been unwilling to negotiate over the last two years, but some compromises could come with a high price tag for students.
After a politically charged debate this summer telegraphed the bitter divide between Republicans and Democrats, Congress eventually agreed to extend a provision that freezes subsidized student loan interest rates at 3.4 percent. But that extension expires next summer — and if Congress wants to avoid the same partisan gridlock that stalled important legislation during the last two years, it will have to bring a longer-term solution to the table.

Some of the alternatives only seem to come to the detriment of the 9.4 million borrowers taking out subsidized loans — those with higher financial need — by imposing higher interest rates and uncertainty in what the rate would be year to year.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I believe all this started when some decided that all students "deserved" the chance to attend college. That's all well and good but as soon as the govenment puts it's 2 cents into something it gets screwed up royally as evidenced by some's idea that homeownership was a right as opposed to a privilege.
We now have a whole generation or more of those with what amounts to nothing more than a useless degree made even more useless by the lack of jobs.

Anonymous said...

My student loans are already almost 5%. They are higher than my car loan!

Anonymous said...

dahh, someone has to pay for the illegals