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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Projected to Approach Fifty Percent - For Profit College Student Loan Defaults

Thursday, January 27, 2011

New data from the Department of Education released this week show alarming projected student loan losses of income for universities is approaching 50%. 46.3% of the federal loans that are used by students who were at nonprofit colleges and universities met in 2008 is expected to go into default. This figure is well above the national average for all universities, which is 15.8% for loans originating in 2008. Some are now parallel to this crisis that the mortgage market. Just like home loan lenders enticed home buyers into risky mortgages they could not afford them, universities have done the same to unsuspecting students. Some argue that these universities well aware that the loan amount is far beyond what the student can pay back.
The Department of Education has worked to provide for how loans to students who attend for-profit universities are located and they hope to help these new data.Proposed legislation would be for profit and universities meet certain standards in order to obtain the funds for government-backed student loans. You would have to "gainful employment" as well as statistics for Debt-to-income ratios for student loan holders.
Meanwhile, for-profit institutions are fighting back and campaigning to block such legislation. They are hard and lobbying with the defense that this is to limit the receipt of minority loans. You can only have one leg, as there are many schools that receive profit for close relations with the government, and current students attend these schools, 75% of all federal student aid.
During the fight seems to be on, will say just that something must be done. While other areas of the economic collapse of the country were in the forefront, student loan debts and defaults, it's almost hidden in a closet. The truth of the matter is, this is serious and the longer it is ignored, the worse it will get. Student loan debt is growing by the day and recently surpassed credit card debt. Addressing student loan debt and the writing requirements of being the next part of the equation for the protection of our country's economic stability.

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