The Subprime Education Scandal: For-Profit Colleges and America's Factories of Debt

With student loan debt quadrupling between 2003 and 2013, it’s time to ask whether education alone – not to mention the kind that robs you for profit – can move people up the class ladder.

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Discover Faces Investigation Into Student Loan Debt Collection Practices Amid Rising Delinquencies

The bank’s student loan business has almost doubled in two years and is facing heat from regulators.

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Elizabeth Warren: Coming to a Post Office Near You – Loans You Can Trust

The U.S. Postal Service is exploring offering basic banking services – bill paying, check cashing, small loans – to its customers and partnering with banks to serve tens of millions of Americans who lack checking or savings accounts.

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How Oregon's "Pay It Forward" Bill Tackles Student Debt

Oregon's new Pay It Forward bill will delay tuition being paid by any student attending any state school until after s/he graduates and gets a job.

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Three Demands to Congress: Student Loans, Glass-Steagall & a Financial Transaction Tax

People rule in a democracy. Not Wall Street, not banks, not money. This is something apparently forgotten by Congress.

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"Bagful of Cash" Exposes Chamber of Commerce As Supreme Corporate Lobby

A new report shows how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has invested millions of corporate dollars into opposing all legislation relating to healthcare, financial reform, closing corporate tax loopholes, and addressing climate change.

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Defanging Dodd-Frank To Protect Wall Street Vampires

The House Committee on Financial Services passed a package of bills that would overturn derivatives regulations set in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.

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Student Loan Interest Rates Set to Double in July, Even As Debt Soars

Student loan interest rates, which have not been changed since they were set in 2001, are scheduled to double on July 1, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent -- allowing the government to cash in on record interest payments.

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Mortgage Catch Pushes Widows Into Foreclosure

Even as the housing market recovers, widows over the age of 50 whose husbands were holders of their mortgage are losing their homes to foreclosure.

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Another Way Student Loans Are Like Mortgages: Subpar Servicing

Companies handling loan payments for mortgages and student debt have overcharged, misapplied payments, misguided consumers and reported false information to credit bureaus.

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