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Media Hit | Consumer, Higher Ed, Textbooks

Groups target textbook prices to rein in college costs

A push to create free or inexpensive textbooks is gaining momentum as educators, philanthropists and policymakers nationwide search for new ways to rein in college costs.

Media Hit | Hunger

Oberlin College kicks off hunger awareness week

OBERLIN — Worrying about their grades, college loans and social life, some Oberlin College students are insulated from the community around them, say organizers of this week’s homelessness and hunger prevention week at the college.

Media Hit | Hunger

Week of events at Oberlin will spotlight hunger, homelessness

OBERLIN — Organizers of next week’s Kick Off to Kick Out Hunger and Homelessness events at Oberlin College say there is a lack of awareness among many Americans about the depth of the problem of poverty in America.

Media Hit | Higher Ed

In The Public Interest: Student Loan Defaults Skyrocket, Double in Past 6 Years

On September 12th, the US Department of Education released the official FY 2009 cohort default rates on student loans. The number of students who defaulted within two years of entering repayment increased to 8.8%, up from 4.5% in FY 2003 and 7% in FY 2008.

Media Hit

Who Is Richard Cordray?

When Representative Luis Gutiérrez, a liberal member of the House Financial Services Committee, heard over the weekend that President Obama had nominated Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he wasn’t sure what to think. Not because he was unsure about Cordray’s record—Gutiérrez just didn’t know who he was.

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