Student loans defaults up! What’s it to do with Obama?
While Obama’s student loan info scandal grows, The Chronicle of Higher Education has published its findings that offer new insight into the problem.
Having studied the data of the repayment of student loans over the last 15 years, the Chronicle has found students are defaulting at rates far exceeding even the daring speculations. Moreover, the amount of defaulted loans only increased over time.
The data for two-year and for-profit colleges is especially worrying, with 40 per cent of the loans defaulting since 1995. The figures are published when the strict federal scrutiny is carried out in for-profit colleges. The investigation was initiated by the Government because of concerns over growing discrepancies between the financial aid drawn and money spent for ends other than teaching. “While for-profits educate less than 10 percent of students, those colleges’ students received close to a quarter of Pell Grant and federal-student-loan dollars in 2008”, the Chronicle article reports.
In 2009 – 2010 the average for-profit charged about $14,000 in tuition fees while the average community college charged about $2,500. This totals in $50.8 billion worth of loans defaulted by the end of the 2009 fiscal year, compared with $39.1 billion at the end of the 2008 fiscal year.
It is considered that economic recession may have contributed to the increase of defaults, though exact reasons of the tendency have not been revealed yet.
Meanwhile, many experts believe defaulting on student loans will only accelerate, if tuition fees continue to rise and fewer jobs are created.
However, things may not be as bad as they seem. “There are numerous safety nets available for broke borrowers, numerous deferments for specific issues such as unemployment or economic hardship, there’s finally a new program called Income Based Repayment that allows borrowers to make payments based solely on their income. The most important is not to think the bankrupt of yourself”, said Matthew Barney, Master in Economics and ProfEssays.com economic expert.
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