Those who judge lack the gift of discernment

Recently a new connection of mine commented, "gossiping hurts three people: the one that listens, the one that talks, and the one that ...

Why is 23K the magic number?

Sandy Baum claims, "…While the sticker price for attending college continues to climb, the net cost — after taking into account grants ...

Korea, here I come

Many of you know that I am leaving the country and soon. I was offered a great teaching job that I couldn't turn down. Like so many of y...

"Would you like to use a credit card to pay off your $86,000 student loan debt?"

That's no joke. A loan manager asked a woman that question. It was in reference to what good ol' First Premier Bank is doing. Over a...

You've got to be kidding me. The Washington Post is up to it again - Michelle Singletary is guilty

OK, so this little piece of advice from Michelle Singletary is hysterical. She writes blase advice columns and this one happens to have a ke...

Please join "Stop Quoting the College Board" - send a clear message to journalists that their stats are inaccurate and sheer spin

Thanks to a good email conversation with the creator of No Sucker Left Behind , we've decided that it's high time that journalists s...

Quick post: Revisiting the reasons why the College Board is not a reliable source

If you read an article that refers to the College Board and their numbers, don't buy it. It's a bunch of hooey. Thanks to No Sucker ...

Citigroup's big tax break, Wall St. continues to hum along like it always has, and we're all drowning in more debt. Oh, and guess what? Defaults are up!

Matt Taibbi, who himself was in exile over in Russia during the 1990s, wrote a damning article in Rolling Stone . It's a nasty analysis ...

Sarah shares - drowning in student loan debt and at risk of losing her home with her folks

Ms. Sarah Shelnutt As a result of my advocacy work for student borrowers, Sarah Shelnutt reached out to me a few months ago with a moving st...

Here's why retailers and other industries ought to be mad as hell - the student lending industry has cornered their markets

Does this funny political cartoon remind you of your own not-so-funny world, one in which you can't buy things from retailers? Several ...

Family, having children - who's picking up on this situation vis-a-vis the student lending crisis

My last post was called "The Saddest Comment of the Day." It was about the fact that many people are realizing they can't hav...

Saddest Comment of the Day

In response to an article I posted, which was entitled, "Student Loan Debt 'Crushing Burden'  That Harms Young Families," ...

Outsourcing Legal Work

I guess for some companies the economic crisis will be a good thing for them in the end. Wow. Shocking. Many companies will come out stronge...

Dean of Most Overpriced Law School in US is now head of the Board of Directors for Private Student Loan Financing Company -

Over at Temporary Attorney , they're reporting on some problematic connections - a dean of the most overpriced law school in the U.S. (...

What's going on at the Washington Post? Why aren't they writing REAL stories about the student lending industry?

  I've been surprised by the lack of stories about the student lending crisis in the Washington Post . The most recent one was downrigh...

COLLEGE IS A RACKET

Edububble does it again. The latest post is based upon yet another "race-tinged" article and the despicable nature of college d...

The person who sells cashmere and can also discuss Dasein - Yelena features me on her awesome blog, Ivy Leagued and Unemployed

Many thanks to Yelena, over at Ivy Leagued and Unemployed , for featuring me on her blog . It's true. I can sell so much cashmere in an ...

Yes, it's high time student loan borrowers were helped

November 28th has passed - the newbies are now facing student loan payment hell. I have already heard from a few new people who have joined ...

Quick post - Despicable: For Profit School Sucking Money from U.S. Govt - $1 BILLION!

Absolutely disgusting. The taste in my mouth is so bitter, I can't even stand to write about this article .

Reduce The Rate - Rev. Jesse Jackson

Please sign up at www.reducetherate.org , and stay tuned for more details. I obviously believe in a far more radical approach to solving the...

Twittering about Student Loan Debt and Primary Care Physicians with MedicineSux

After posting an article about a handful of Democrats who are trying to add loan forgiveness for doctors to the health care legislation on ...

When you realize the significance of Twitter- Lynnette Khalfani-Cox responds

With the continued support from readers, I have been able to throw myself into work that's meaningful and just plain good. I want to tha...

If there's a war on the middle class, I'm enlisting to fight for it!

After writing Bait and Switch (a book you should all buy, as well as these other other texts ), author Barbara Ehrenreich explains, "...

Who says we aren't industrious? And what I would buy if I didn't have to pay the student loan sharks

I waged another "Craigslist Campaign" for FSLDM the other night, and posted about the group, wonderful Rob, and used Paul's aw...

Even though you can't pay your bills, you don't have a job, and you're being harrassed by lenders, you should "remain flexible"

I love it. Five College presidents met in Troy to discuss concerns about graduates with excessive debt . These (cough, cough) geniuses are e...

Public Memo to Sallie Mae - You can't get blood from a turnip!

So, the financial fall out continues. Despite claims that we're in "recovery" (who the hell are they fooling?), more of our su...

Let's save jobs that help ruin other people's lives!

They're at it again. Sallie Mae and Nelnet are pulling the "save jobs!" card. They've done this campaigning in the past (s...

My recent email to Arne Duncan

Nov. 13, 2009 Dear Secretary Duncan : We met briefly in the fall at a University of Chicago alumni event. I am the Promotional Writer and Di...

Quick Post , Quick Find - ABA's proposal and the "Horrors of Defaulting on Education Debt"

Mark Kantrowitz wrote an excellent piece (see here ) on the dangers of going into default. This story and the ABA's announcement   in th...

A mother's desperation - Please help my son!

Rob and I receive hundreds and hundreds of emails each week from people who are struggling to survive in this economic climate with their st...

Jeff Noordhoek, President of Nelnet, wins the quote of the day!

Jeff Noordhoek made so many great remarks that remind me of why we're all part of the indentured educated class that I had a lot of tro...