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Credit Crisis Squeezes Student Loans

Families struggle to pay college tuition as loan market dries up

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 17, 2008 2:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – The economic downturn is hitting college students hard, the New York Times reports. Job losses and the disappearing loan market are strangling formerly robust family plans to foot college tuition fees. Private lenders, used by many students to fill the gap between federal aid and...   Read full story »

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