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1. Billionaire Robert Smith Pays Student Debt For Morehouse Graduating Class  NPR
2. Morehouse Graduates' Student Loans to Be Paid Off by Billionaire  The New York Times
3. Billionaire pledges to pay off student loan debt for Morehouse College class of 2019  USA TODAY
4. Morehouse commencement speaker tells grads he’ll pay off their student loans  Los Angeles Times
5. Morehouse College grads are surprised by a billionaire's promise to pay off their student loans  CNN
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The government profited and looked away as thousands of immigrant taxi drivers in New York were ravaged by exploitative loans.

Morehouse College seniors got a surprise when billionaire investor Robert F. Smith announced during his commencement speech that he would pay off the ...

The U.S. collected $3.3 billion of delinquent student debt in the first half of this fiscal year. That's up from $2.9 billion in the full year before.

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State and local governments need to find the resources to help families make smarter financial decisions about college during children's high school years.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Kathy Kraninger says the department is getting in the way of efforts to police the student loan industry.

The government is denying federal housing loans to young immigrants with DACA status, even after Ben Carson said it wasn't happening.

The recent escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions is threatening to cut short a nascent recovery in the market for collateralized loan obligations.

This new employee benefit lets workers trade in their paid time off.

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By looking at minimalism as a lifestyle instead of a sacrifice, Jennifer Chan paid off $50000 in loans in a few short years.

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The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the Education Department is impeding access to information that regulators need to oversee the ...

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As the cost of college rises, more parents are cosigning private loans for their children's education. That move can leave them on the hook for the debt if their ...

Malaysia's government is turning to the wealth of the masses, instead of reticent banks, to help solve a $4.8 billion property overhang.

The company is facing multiple lawsuits from the CFPB and states attorneys general.

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Income share agreements sound like a better deal than today's student loans, but what will they do to society?

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Ramping up his latest push for the White House, Bernie Sanders is taking aim at high interest rates on credit cards and payday loans. The Vermont senator ...

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For the first time in three years, the interest rates on Federal student loans will decrease anywhere from seven to ten percent depending on the loan type.

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Consumer Reports say there may be relief ahead if you qualify for a student loan forgiveness program.

An East Texas businessman admitted to using loan documents with forged signatures in order to get personal and commercial loans for a total of $145000 from ...

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When you think of your golden years, you think of rest, relaxation, travel and the good life. The last thing on your mind: student loans. Yet, for millions of ...

Lawmakers could make it easier for student loan borrowers to cancel their debt in bankruptcy. The bill, which is supported by 14 Democrats, one Republican and ...

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, on Monday introduced a bill aimed at making it easier for those with student loan ...

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As a result of the ITC stepdown, solar loans will increasingly start to look like regular consumer loans.

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Total U.S. household debt is now $993 billion higher than the peak of $12.68 trillion in the third quarter of 2008, according to a new report by the New York Fed.

Nearly 2,300 teachers have just had a mountain of student loan debt lifted off their backs, according to previously unreleased figures from the U.S. Department of ...

Serious auto-loan delinquencies – 90 days or more past due – jumped to 4.69% of outstanding auto loans and leases in the first quarter of 2019, according to ...

Taylor Smith graduated college with 11 student loans and $53000 in debt.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation to make bankruptcy relief available for student loan borrowers. Sens. Elizabeth Warren ...

The truth is that millions of Americans would be worse off without access to small-dollar loans.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks and Mercon Coffee Group separately announced sustainability-focused loan facilities on Monday, signaling the coffee sector's ...

Debbie Baker said her loan provider told her she was on track for forgiveness, but was rejected when she applied.

A home equity line of credit, or HELOC, is a second mortgage that gives you access to cash based on the value of your home. You can draw from a home equity ...

Tesla has rolled out a new benefit for its workers: employee loans, facilitated through the London-based financial tech start-up Salary Finance, and funded via its ...

Sonia Chang-DĂ­az's amendment would move Massachusetts closer to reaching its goal of a truly equitable cannabis industry.

For younger renters looking for help on payments, there's a new solution: loans from startups. We look at the details and pitfalls.

(FOX 9) - The Minnesota Senate voted unanimously to pay Argosy University students directly for state grants and loans kept by Argosy when the school ...

While many borrowers welcomed a one-time loan clearance plan, it also raised long-simmering questions about the cost and quality of college.

Startups are stepping into a market long associated with payday lenders. One pitfall is that such loans might encourage some young renters to live beyond their ...

Boomers like me who paid off all of our student loans need to give millennials a break.

British financial software firm Finastra has signed three global banks on its R3 Corda blockchain-based syndicated loans platform, the firm officially announced ...

The behaviour of some loan firms is deemed 'unacceptable' by the watchdog, the Financial Ombudsman *Service*.

Americans owe more in student loans than they do on credit cards, but how does that debt impact the rest of their financial lives? If the day comes when you want ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will announce her first major bill today, in partnership with Vermont Sen. and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. It's something ...

A federal grant program that was supposed to encourage teachers to work in low-income schools turned into a headache for many recipients when those grants ...

"Because of student loans we are literally driving tens of thousands of older Americans into poverty"

Colleges should not play the role of subprime mortgage brokers sticking taxpayers with the bill.

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Adam Looney offers a more progressive plan for forgiving student loans that makes income-based repayment universal and provides relief to existing borrowers.

Researcher concludes that increase in Grad PLUS loans did not drive up the price of medical and business schools or increase debt burden of those who ...

Tim Kaine and Randi Weingarten write that the bipartisan Public *Service* Loan Forgiveness program offers us an opportunity to do right by public servants and ...

We chatted with seven people who currently have student loan debt about how such a proposal might impact their lives and futures.

Thousands of students across Central New York will be graduating this weekend and for many of them, the looming cloud of paying back student loans is ...

Tax refunds are a lifeline for many low-income people. For the increasing number of people who've fallen behind on their student loans, however, that relief ...

POWNAL — The town is moving forward in its efforts to study and remediate an inadequately covered landfill, with loan approval expected this week. The town's ...

Having a car is a necessity for the millions of Americans who don't have alternative transportation to get to work or school. When you have bad credit, that ...

Ann Arbor — Going into her junior year at the University of Michigan, Meg Wynne already has $20,000 in debt. "It's scary because you're not always thinking ...

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Most banks and financial institutions are built for conventional businesses, not cooperatives, which means co-ops have a hard time accessing the money they ...

More than a decade after Congress set up a way to erase student debt for people who hold public-*service* jobs, the system is in disarray. Around 73000 people ...

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Some say Beijing lends money for infrastructure and development to pressure poor countries with debt. Not so.

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A group suing JPMorgan for securities fraud is just trying to change the rules after getting burned.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't known for quoting the Bible on Twitter. She's making an exception when it comes to her push against payday loans. The lefty ...

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Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund reached an agreement on a loan of about $6 billion designed to help the South Asian nation avert an economic ...

The U.S. Export-Import Bank once again has the ability to back deals of more than $10 million — for the first time since 2015 — after the Senate on Wednesday ...

The UK tax authority has arrested five men and a woman for promoting fraudulent schemes designed to evade paying the loan charge, in its most serious ...

Metro Bank has drawn up plans to sell more than ÂŁ1bn worth of loans at the centre of a misreporting scandal that caused its share price to plunge and forced it ...

U.S. officials no longer think the government will make money off the federal student-loan program and now project it will cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars ...

Student loan game show host Michael Torpey is “excited” about presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) proposal to cancel a broad swath of American ...

OSAGE — The Osage City Council has approved a $10000 Main Street loan so a local business can expand.

WASHINGTON — U.K. Export Finance, an agency with a long-standing interest in supporting satellite projects but with little to show for it until now, has signed a ...

For more than 18 months, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ginnie Mae, and the Department of Veterans Affairs have been investigating ...

Want to know which banks target people of color for loans with high interest rates, steep fees or reverse mortgages? Or which banks deny home loans to African ...

In less than two weeks, San Jose State graduate student Mike Casas will walk across the stage — a moment he's dreamt of for years — but the excitement is ...