Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. As part of the White House Student Debt Challenge, American Student Assistance, a private nonprofit dedicated to eliminating finance as a barrier to education and the dreams education enables, has committed to spreading the word about federal student loan income driven repayment (IDR) options to at least 1 million borrowers before the end of 2016. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unveiled the student loan Payback Playbook, a set of prototype disclosures that outline a path to affordable payments for borrowers trying to avoid student debt distress. More...

The interest rates on federal student loans will fall by about half a percentage point in the 2016-17 academic year, to the lowest point in history, based on the results of the Treasury Department's auction on 10-year notes. Read more...

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it wants to enroll an additional two million federal student loan borrowers in income-based repayment programs in the next year. Read more...

This study compares tuition funding arrangements, debt at graduation and earnings outcomes for full-time domestic undergraduates in eight Anglophone countries: the UK (England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland), United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It finds that, for the typical student, average debts are the highest for English students. More...

By Guest Writer. Student loan debt is a rising issue. In the US, the student debt crisis is a very real and growing issue that is affecting the lives of many college students. More...