Direct Loan Program Is Good Deal for All // Painful Reality Teaches Vital...

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 29, 1995 ;     400 words ......broader availability of direct loans, the plan sponsored...to limit the direct loan program, which Simon sponsored...profits under government loan guarantees, and by the...profitable secondary loan markets. Having failed...opponents now seek to limit direct loans ...

DIRECT LOANS ARE A BAD DEAL.(OPINION)(Letter to the Editor)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 24, 2004 ;     565 words ......Education's Direct Loan Program and the Federal...the Direct Loan Program began in the...the Direct Loan Program benefits taxpayers...the Direct Loan Program, the government...times more than Direct Loans. I fail to...loans and ...

Study backs direct loans in California campus aid

University Wire;  May 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ......under the Direct Loan Program, the government...average, [more than] direct loans." Under the S...that switch to direct loans. CALPIRG campus...adopts the Direct Loan Program, and San Diego...over the Direct Loan Program. "I think ...

Direct loans best for students and schools

China Daily;  June 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......traditional loan program will attest...value of its direct loans, as opposed...guaranteed loan program. If all these loans were direct loans, the OMB...students. With direct loans, the government...the direct loan program offers ...

Too early to grade Clinton's student-loan reform plan.(includes related...

Insight on the News;  July 3, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Direct Student Loan Program, which took effect...surprisingly, the direct-loan program has the firm...go to a full loan program [that is] going...would freeze direct loans at 40 percent...Kornfeld, the direct-loan program and ...

U. Oklahoma officials: Loan program aims to please

University Wire;  June 22, 1999 ;     463 words ......than the direct loan program, which about...than the direct loan program," said Matt Hamilton...using the direct loan program would pay," Hamilton...In the direct loan program, the university...attempt to make the direct loans ...

Sen. Paul Simon Sets Friday Visit to Elmhurst College as Campus Gears Up...

U.S. Newswire;  July 6, 1995 ;     494 words ......under the new Simon-led Direct Student Loan Program. With Financial Aid Director Gary Rold...leading champion of the direct student loan program, which began at 104 schools last year...complex and troubled guaranteed student loan program means a variety of new benefits ...

U.S. Department of Education Announces First Direct Loans Issued Under...

U.S. Newswire;  July 1, 1994 ;     480 words ......as the first direct loans are issued on...1 billion in direct loans, or 5 percent...year 1998-99, direct loans will comprise...income. "The direct loan program was put in place...that the direct loan program be developed...implement the ...

FIVE STATE SCHOOLS CHOSEN FOR FEDERAL LOAN PROGRAM

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 17, 1993 ;     485 words ......SCHOOLS CHOSEN FOR FEDERAL LOAN PROGRAM By JEFF SIMMONS, Staff Writer...participate in a new student direct-loan program designed to save $4.3 billion...from the interest they charge. Loan defaults are projected at...banks against any losses. The direct-loan ...

PRESERVE BALANCE IN STUDENT LOANS CONGRESS SHOULD REJECT A MEASURE THAT...

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  June 18, 2004 ;     434 words ...For a decade, two student loan programs have competed for business on...And for a decade backers of the Direct Loan program, which makes loans direct from the U.S. Treasury, and the Federal Family Education Loan program, run by private lenders with government...would give the ...

Direct Loans To Students Less Costly, Report Says

The Washington Post;  December 1, 1999 ;     539 words ......estimated the direct student loan program has saved the government...students this year. "The direct loan program is much less expensive for...addition, interest earned on direct loans accrues to the U.S. Treasury...department officials, the direct loan program has been ...

In Chicago Address Sunday, Simon Attacks Bid To Roll Back Student Loan...

U.S. Newswire;  March 26, 1995 ;     700+ words ......direct student loan program and banks and...guaranteed student loan program." Simon, the...of the direct loan program, offers the keynote...guaranteed loans to direct loans continues after...guaranteed student loan program, was ...

Feds said they would have to hire hundreds to handle direct...

The Washington Times;  April 3, 1996 ;     413 words ......direct government student loan program would add 600 jobs to the...employees] to implement Direct Loans . . . Mr. Simon went on...black hole that the direct-loan program will become if it is not eliminated. The direct student loan program puts the U.S. taxpayer ...

Changes in federal loan program produce student savings

University Wire;  August 2, 1999 ;     462 words ......receiving federal government Direct Loans may be eligible for savings...government funding from the Direct Loan program. These loans are used for college...are uneven between banks and Direct Loans. It is unfair to the students...the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) ...

Big lenders seek to kill direct loans for students

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  January 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ......competition holds interest rates down, direct loans are good for the student. They are also...have a deep distaste for the direct loan program. They want all the business for themselves...universities have dropped the direct loan program and more are planning to do so. The...