11/3: Campus protests, $31 billion in unmet need, LRP from NIH, $35,000 a year, T-Bill Doomsday FOrecast, Matthew Ebel, #106

03/11/2005

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Episode Synopsis

Student Financial Aid News
+ Financial Aid Cut Conferences
+ $31 billion in unmet financial need
+ Lowest-income students face an average of $4,990 a year in unmet need
+ Seattle Article
+ Washington U. Article
+ Get involved - contact your representatives
+ House.gov
+ Senate.gov

Scholarship Update
+ NIH LRP
+ Webwire article
+ NIH offers to repay up to $35,000 annually of the qualified educational debt of health professionals
+ $225 million disbursed - that's a lot of student loans repaid
+ NIH LRP Web Site
+ You can find this scholarship on our experimental scholarship site
+ StudentScholarshipSearch.com

Doomsday Forecast on the T-Bill
+ 3.983% on Monday, October 31
+ Projecting out to 5.261% in May 2006
+ If you have graduated and you have student loans, now is the time to consolidate
+ Consolidating insulates you from additional interest rate increases
+ Consolidating also protects you from Congressional tampering
+ StudentLoanConsolidator.com
+ New federal student loans at StaffordLoan.com and ParentPLUSLoan.com

Podsafe Music
+ MatthewEbel.com Matthew Ebel, All I Want Is You
+ Via the Podsafe Music Network

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