Student loans: Will Congress’s remedy favor middle class over poor?, By Mark Trumbull, April 25, 2012, Christian Science Monitor: “The surging student loan burden has the attention of President Obama and Congress. A jaw-dropping fact has become widely publicized: that student debt for the first time totals more than $1 trillion, well over the amount Americans owe on credit cards. But even as politicians consider fixes – especially how to avert an interest-rate hike affecting students come July 1 – the grant-style aid that’s most important to lower-income students is already experiencing a budget squeeze…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty