Economics of a College Town

August 24th, 2011

One of the things most people don’t think about, unless you live in a town that lives and dies by their colleges, is the impact colleges have on the economic pulse of the towns they are in. We hear about the cost of education as well as the cut backs and other problems right now [...]

It wasn’t very long ago when my I walked in from my very first college registration and handed my dad a list of books that was required for class. It had instructions as to when and where I would need to go to order, pay and pick them up. He casually instructed me to go [...]

When asked that question in previous years you may have had a quick answer. Today when you ask that of anyone the answer is often proceeded by a very long, thoughtful pause. The days of the blind leading the blind may be on their way out with all the information that people are now privy [...]

From every source I have been able to find thus far on the shenanigans going on in the US Congress about all the budget controls, cuts, etc., it looks like there will be some major changes coming to student loans. What I have not been able to discover is what those specific changes will be.
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