Employers Should Help Pay Student Loans for Their Workers

Autor/in	Wrubel, Paul R.
Titel	Employers Should Help Pay Student Loans for Their Workers
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 46, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Federal Programs; Graduates; Federal Government; Student Financial Aid; Student Loan Programs; Loan Repayment; Educational Finance; Paying for College; Incentives; Employee Assistance Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Graduate; Absolvent; Absolventin; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Bundesregierung; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Bildungsfonds; Anreiz; Beschäftigungsprojekt
Abstract	The troubled student-loan market is a hot topic among legislators, policy makers, and the public. Two recurring issues are how to ensure that enough funds are available to students and how to ensure that lenders are fully repaid. Yet despite all the talk about loans, little has been proposed to help college students and their families with the ever-greater debts that probably lie ahead. Recent legislation, the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act, would suggest that the first issue--helping banks shore up capital to make student loans--is being dealt with. Although banks and nonprofit lenders continue to complain that Congress has cut too deeply into lender subsidies, causing student loans to be less profitable, the federal government seems to be stepping up to the plate and helping lenders make money available to students. In this article, the author discusses a partial solution to this problem: creating a federal program to provide tax benefits--or, in the case of nonprofit organizations, grant money--to employers that assist the college, proprietary-school, and advanced-degree graduates they hire with repaying their student loans. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10