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Is a College Degree Worth Enormous Debt In A Terrible USA Job Market

Were there any regulators on duty between 2001 and 2008? Our student population has been getting ripped unbeknownst to them. In essence victims of some whopping money making schemes involving
both educational and financial institutions so I speculate. During the same period as the home loan debacle.

How did college become so expensive?

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The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia - Why was college so expensive?

Tuition costs at public and private colleges were, are and have been rising faster than just about anything in American society – health care, energy, even housing. Between 1950 and 1970, sending a kid to a public university cost about four percent of an American family's annual income. Forty years later, in 2010, it accounted for 11 percent. Moody's released statistics showing tuition and fees rising 300 percent versus the Consumer Price Index between 1990 and 2011.

After the mortgage crash of 2008, for instance, many states pushed through deep cuts to their higher-education systems, but all that did was motivate schools to raise tuition prices and seek to recoup lost state subsidies in the form of more federal-loan money. The one thing they didn't do was cut costs. "College spending has been going up at the same time as prices have been going up," says Kevin Carey of the nonpartisan New America Foundation.
This is why the issue of student-loan interest rates pales in comparison with the larger problem of how anyone can repay such a huge debt – the average student now leaves school owing $27,000 – by entering an economy sluggishly jogging uphill at a fraction of the speed of climbing education costs. "It's the unending, gratuitous, punitive increase in prices that is driving all of this," says Carey.

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 Post subject: Re: Student Loan Scams =Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
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The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever

How is this happening? It's complicated. But throw off the mystery and what you'll uncover is a shameful and oppressive outrage that for years now has been systematically perpetrated against a generation of young adults. For this story, I interviewed people who developed crippling mental and physical conditions, who considered suicide, who had to give up hope of having children, who were forced to leave the country, or who even entered a life of crime because of their student debts.

They all take responsibility for their own mistakes. They know they didn't arrive at gorgeous campuses for four golden years of boozing, balling and bong hits by way of anybody's cattle car. But they're angry, too, and they should be. Because the underlying cause of all that later-life distress and heartache – the reason they carry such crushing, life-alteringly huge college debt – is that our university-tuition system really is exploitative and unfair, designed primarily to benefit two major actors.

First in line are the colleges and universities, and the contractors who build their extravagant athletic complexes, hotel-like dormitories and God knows what other campus embellishments. For these little regional economic empires, the federal student-loan system is essentially a massive and ongoing government subsidy, once funded mostly by emotionally vulnerable parents, but now increasingly paid for in the form of federally backed loans to a political constituency – low- and middle-income students – that has virtually no lobby in Washington.

Next up is the government itself. While it's not commonly discussed on the Hill, the government actually stands to make an enormous profit on the president's new federal student-loan system, an estimated $184 billion over 10 years, a boondoggle paid for by hyperinflated tuition costs and fueled by a government-sponsored predatory-lending program that makes even the most ruthless private credit-card company seem like a "Save the Panda" charity. Why is this happening? The answer lies in a sociopathic marriage of private-sector greed and government force that will make you shake your head in wonder at the way modern America sucks blood out of its young.

In the early 2000s, a thirtysomething scientist named Alan Collinge seemed to be going places. He had graduated from USC in 1999 with a degree in aerospace engineering and landed a research job at Caltech. Then he made a mistake: He asked for a raise, didn't get it, lost his job and soon found himself underemployed and with no way to repay the roughly $38,000 in loans he'd taken out to get his degree.

Collinge's creditor, Sallie Mae, which originally had been a quasi-public institution but, in the late Nineties, had begun transforming into a wholly private lender, didn't answer his requests for a forbearance or a restructuring. So in 2001, he went into default. Soon enough, his original $38,000 loan had ballooned to more than $100,000 in debt, thanks to fees, penalties and accrued interest. He had a job as a military contractor, but he lost it when his employer ran a credit check on him. His whole life was now about his student debt.

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 Post subject: Re: Student Loans - The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
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The Subprime Student Loan Racket

With help from Washington, the for-profit college industry is loading up millions of low-income students with debt they'll never pay off.

Only later did she learn that those private loans—which made up 42 percent of her “financial aid” package—carried double-digit interest rates and other onerous terms*.

To make matters worse, the program did not come close to delivering on the promises that had been made. The instructors had little recent medical experience. Instead of really teaching, she says, they usually just read textbooks aloud in class and sometimes offered students the answers on tests ahead of time. On the rare occasions when Leveque and her class were given time in the lab, she found that the equipment was broken down and shoddy—except for the expensive new mannequin, which no one knew how to use. Instead of the promised rotations at UCLA Medical Center, her clinical training consisted of helping pass out pills at a nursing home. (A spokeswoman for Corinthian Colleges denied many of Leveque’s allegations, insisting that the company does not condone cheating, that all LVN instructors at Everest College have “at least the minimum qualifications” set by the California Board of Vocational Nursing, and that UCLA Medical Center “is not and has never been” one of the school’s official clinical training sites.)

Since graduating in 2008, Leveque has been unable to find a nursing job, perhaps because she never learned how to perform basic tasks such as giving shots. Instead, she works as an occasional home health care aid earning at the most $1,200 a month—not enough to pay her rent on the cramped apartment she shares with her sister and son or keep gas in her car, much less pay off her student loans. As a result, her loan balance has ballooned to approximately $32,000, and she has no idea how she will ever pay it off*. “My credit is ruined,” Leveque says. “I made one mistake, and I will be paying for it for the rest of my life.”

Leveque’s story is far from unique.

Each year, more than two million Americans enroll in for-profit colleges, also known as proprietary schools, and their popularity has only grown since the financial crisis.


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 Post subject: Re: Student Loans - The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
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Time to start prosecuting and students receiving a minimum of 50% - 60% forgiveness.

In the last 30 years the cost of higher education has increased 400%. How many are on the take?

What's missing are USA jobs as the icing on the cake.


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10 Ridiculous Perks Given to College Presidents and Celebrity Profs
and extra compensation. Its good to be a college president (or General Petraeus). 10 ridiculous perks given to college presidents and celebrity profs ... At a time when college students are struggling to keep up with skyrocketing tuition and debt, faculty ...

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For-Profit College Loan Fail
that for-profit college graduates earn enough to repay their federal loans, or else the schools could lose access ... to survive. Most colleges receive 75 percent of more of their revenue in federal loan funding; at others, like ... colleges default on their federal loans each year, how well is that government money being spent? Thats ...

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All This and College Loans Too
Reforming the college loan gravy train is a pretty ... Congress voted Thursday to force commercial banks out of the federal student loan market, cutting off ... of the money to new education initiatives. ....Since the bank-based loan program began in 1965, commercial ...

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Screw U: How For-Profit Colleges Rip You Off
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How College Pricing Is Like Holiday Retail Sales
Colleges offer high sticker prices but plentiful ... How college pricing is like holiday retail sales ... but universities in many ways have been working from the same playbook. Savvier college-bound consumers know ...

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The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts
most students take out new loans for college in August, Congress will have a window to fix the loan ... The rising price of college has contributed to overall student loan debt, but so has the fact that more students are attending college. As more students attend college, theyre taking out more loans — ...

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Chart of the Day: The Job Market For College Grads is Tougher Than Ever
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Chart of the Day: Student Loan Debt Crowding Out Mortgages
A new report from the New York Fed describes a disturbing trend: student loan debt has increased so much that its crowding out the ability of college graduates to buy homes. As the chart on the right shows, young workers with student loan debt—most of whom are college grads—used to take on mortgage debt ...

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Charts: Shocking Stats on College Costs
and public colleges climbed steadily over the last decade: Tuition, 2000-2009 (in thousands) ... vs. Shopping In 2010, for the first time ever, Americans outstanding student loans exceeded their total credit card debt: Sources: College Board; Mark Kantrowitz, Fastweb.com ...

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Chart of the Day: Student Loan Debt Is Skyrocketing
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Report: Most Tax-Based College Aid Goes to the Least Needy Families
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"This Is Morally Wrong": Watch Elizabeth Warren on GOP and Student Loans
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Student Loan Debt Is a Beast. Here Are Elizabeth Warren's, President Obama's, and the GOP's Plans to Fix It.
to college has spiked 440 percent . Since 2004, student loan debt in this country has tripled, and now ... If youre one of the 37 million Americans with student loan debt, youre in for a real treat come July 1. Thats when interest rates on federal student loans are set to rise to 6.8 percent—double ...

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Could This 2013 Nobel Laureate Afford College Today?
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Student Loan Reform 101
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 Post subject: Re: Student Loans - The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
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A new report from the New York Fed offers a grim take on the job prospects of recent college grads. It finds that underemployment (i.e., working at a job that doesn't require a college degree) has averaged around 40 percent for the past two decades, going down a bit during economic expansions and up a bit during recessions.

But if the rate of underemployment itself hasn't changed very much, the nature of underemployment sure has. It's gotten worse. Take a look at the thick lines in the chart on the right. They show what happens to recent college grads who can't get college-level jobs. The number who get good non-college jobs has plummeted from 50 percent to 35 percent. The number in low-wage jobs has risen from 15 percent to 20 percent. And needless to say, these grads also have quite a bit more student loan debt than grads from the early 90s.

Getting a college degree is still worth it. But there's not much question that today's college grads have it tougher than previous generations did. And the 40 percent who don't find good jobs have it the toughest of all.

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 Post subject: Re: Are 4 year Degrees Worth Enormous Debt = Student Loan Scams
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College Inc

The business of higher education is booming. It's a $400 billion industry fueled by taxpayer money. But what are students getting out of the deal? Critics say a worthless degree and a mountain of debt. Investors insist they're innovators, widening access to education.

There are people making mountains of profit off the backs of students that can never pay this back. It is clearly white collar crime on a scale much larger than both GOP
home loan fraud escapades.

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 Post subject: Re: BOYCOTT COLLEGE LOANS - THE PROGRAM STUDENTS CANNOT AFFORD
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It's not the banks that will be the big losers if the bubble bursts. It's the taxpayers, because the government is now on the hook for the majority of student loans.

Even worse is the burden on students. The debt requires students to keep paying for a product that lacks its advertised value either in education or employment opportunities. College education has been
dumbed down to enroll more and more taxpayer-subsidized students, even if they take only remedial (aka high school) courses.

College-loan debt is a powerful deterrent to marriage and to getting on with life. Students cannot discharge the debt in bankruptcy, can't get a job that justifies the loan and may have had a lousy education.

For years we've heard the propaganda line that everyone should go to college and that a college degree will improve your status in life and standard of living. Not any more.


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Just out of curiosity... do you have a college degree?

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 Post subject: Re: BOYCOTT COLLEGE LOANS - THE PROGRAM STUDENTS CANNOT AFFORD
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Educational debt has become a ticking time bomb. With over $1 trillion in outstanding loan balances, the student loan industry has a lot in common with the sub-prime mortgage industry, which went into a devastating crisis in 2007-8. Both rely on a financial innovation called “asset-backed securitization” (see sidebar below) to raise capital and to hedge risk—in other words, to raise money for loans and to reduce the likelihood that investors will lose their money.

Student loans asset-backed securitization—or SLABS—means student loan agencies package student debts and sell them to investors who expect to get their money back, plus interest, as students pay back their loans. In theory, selling off nicely bundled packages of debt to investors allows these institutions to turn around more quickly and make new loans. For this reason, SLABS is touted as the main channel through which the lending industry moves funds from investors to students—and so is supposed to be of mutual benefit to students, lenders, and institutional investors such as hedge funds and pension funds.

For more on educational debt, see Christopher Cooper, The Corinthian Crisis.
Like the sub-prime housing industry, however, SLABS ultimately depends on the ability of borrowers to meet their debt obligations. Herein lies the rub. Since as far back as the recession of 2001, the majority of student debtors have not been able to get decent paying jobs upon leaving college.



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