Paul Hunter Zaid
Online Journalism
Journal #7
3/24/2015
1) Solutions to the Student Loan Crisis
Outstanding student loan debt has passed the $1 trillion mark, and the class of 2014 is the most indebt class ever. For the past 20 years public colleges have seen their public funds drop, resulting in raising tuition for their students. The tuition at a public four-year college has increased 112% between 1990 and 2010. The article states that the Student Aid Bill of Rights that was signed by President Obama this month doesn’t fix the problem of students getting into debt in the first place, so what is the solution?
One obvious solution is for the federal government to reinvest in the country’s public college system, resulting in a decrease of tuition that would in turn reduce the amount of loan debt that students pick up, hopefully resulting in lower loan debt amounts for students.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/policygenius/heres-what-we-can-do-abou_b_6889018.html
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2) Student Debt is not just for the Twenty-Something Crowd Anymore
Student debt is often assumed for people in their 20’s, or even 30’s, but with many older American’s going back to school for various reasons we are finding adults 65 and older with eight times more student debt than before. In 2013, Americans 65 and older had student loan debt of $18.2 billion versus the $2.8 billion in 2005.
The importance of this article is for the reader to assess their postgraduate payment plan by researching the potential increase in salary upon completing a degree that paid for with student loans. Regardless of one’s reason to pursue a degree, the most important thing to think about is their post-graduation steps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/education/managing-student-loan-debt-as-an-older-adult.html?_r=0
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3) 5 Little Known Ways to Get Your Student Loans Forgiven
Those student loans that you have, you may just qualify to have them forgiven. Mostly likely one would know if you qualify for such loan forgiveness by working within the healthcare or teaching profession, volunteer programs, or being disable from work and qualifying for your loans to be forgiven. Regardless of your situation it’s wise to be informed of any potential forgiveness clause that can save you, the student loan consumer to save thousands of dollars in repayment.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-little-known-ways-student-103048443.html
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Problematic Piece:
http://usat.ly/1Gk1NTG
According to a new Quinnipiac University poll of registered American voters, Fox News Channel has the most trusted news coverage in both broadcast and cable.
Fox News was rated as the most trusted by 29 percent of the respondents, followed by CNN with 22 percent, CBS News and NBC News at 10 percent, ABC News at 8 percent and MSNBC at 7 percent.
Breaking down the rankings by political party, 58 percent of Republicans say they trust Fox News the most, with 13 percent trusting CNN the most, 7 percent for NBC and CBS, 5 percent for ABC and 2 percent for MSNBC.
Democrats were more evenly split, with 32 percent saying they trust CNN the most, followed by NBC at 15 percent, CBS and MSNBC at 14 percent, ABC at 8 percent and Fox News with 3 percent.
The issue with this poll is the answers are based on opinion, and answers vary resulting in just a poll, not a news report.
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