The government will make $51 billion in profit off of federal student loans this year.On July 1 this year, the interest rate on new Standford loans doubled, from 3.4% to 6.8% because our dysfunctional Congress failed to pass legislation to stop what had been set in as an automatic increase years ago when interest rates were high.
That's five times the money Google made in profit in 2012. In fact, it's more than any Fortune 500 company made last year.
Cumulatively, more than $1 trillion is owed on student loans -- more than the entire credit card debt of Americans.
Are we crazy? We should be making education easier, not harder.
Ralph
Once again today, the Senate tried to advance a bill that would have fixed the student loan interest rates at 3.4%.
ReplyDeleteAnd once again Republicans blocked it by failing to vote for cloture. There were 51votes to advance the bill and 49 against.
So, once again, Republican senators failed our students.
Shame on them.