3/31: HR 609 passes, Harvard one-ups UPenn, Marbles, April Fools Day Hoaxes, Brother Love, #218
Student Financial Aid News
+ Brother Love promo
+ Are you subscribed to our newsletter?
+ Coming very soon – a podcast-based exit interview (like, in about an hour)
+ No word yet from anyone on Euro securitization
+ House passes HR 609
+ Nothing major changes, which is good and bad
+ Harvard University announced Thursday that it was raising the income level for its program to pay full costs for the lowest income students from $40,000 to $60,000. The announcement followed …

3/30: Politics, detective work, loans in other countries, Apple Scholarship, jobcast on career fairs, Audiopharm, #217
Student Financial Aid News
+ So far, just partisan debate in the House on the Higher Ed Act
+ Nothing of substance accomplished, which is actually good
+ House also working on 2007 budget – hoping for the $7B funds restoration the Senate included last month
+ Financial aid administrators trying to research more student loan companies
+ It’s fun to play corporate bloodhound
+ Thailand prosecutes for its student loans (at 12% rates!)
+ China blacklists you by publishing your name …

3/29: Consolidation countdown, UK student debt, HEA 609, BC scholarship, Affiliate programs jobcast, David McMillin, #216
Student Financial Aid News
+ Get subscribed to C.C. Chapman’s U-Turn Cafe today!
+ Tomorrow is the very last day to file an application for consolidation if you have a two step scenario
+ Call us at visit StudentLoanConsolidator.com
+ Student debt is one of several reasons that 20% of bankruptcies in the UK are filed by people under age 30, according to the U.K.’s Insolvency Service.
+ In the 18-to-29 age group, the figure has jumped to 18.7% last …

3/28: Veterans, protests, tax day, Marine corps, federal and private loan consolidation, i:scintilla, #215
Student Financial Aid News
+ Illinois veterans grant falls short, preventing funding of veterans’ education
+ American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers and several faculty unions and student groups takes out ad protesting HEA
+ Reminder that April 15 is tax day and 80% of the FAFSA is just IRS data
+ File your taxes, file your FAFSA
+ A group of college students protesting proposed cuts to state spending on higher education crashed the ceremonial swearing-in Monday of Public …

3/27: Federal funds rate, prime rate, HEA reauthorization, taekwondo scholarship, jobcast, Greta Gaines, #214
Student Financial Aid News
+ What’s that sound? Why, it’s the FOMC raising rates again
+ Reminder – anything tied to Federal funds rate is going up to 4.75%
+ Prime rate
+ 91 day T-bill
+ Anything tied to these rates also going up
+ Credit cards
+ Mortgages
+ Home equity loans
+ Student loans
+ Anything variable rate is currently your enemy
+ HEA 2.0 hits the House floor this week
+ Many lobbying groups are not sure what to protest, since no one has actually …

3/25: Saturday night frivolity on the Financial Aid Podcast, #213
There’s an awful lot of profanity in the songs in tonight’s show. This show has been tagged as explicit, so please be aware that it’s not work safe or family friendly, unless everyone in your family can go see R-rated movies without parental accompaniment.
Podsafe Music
+ Madsumo, There’s So Many Ways I Can Kill You
+ Sudden Death, Spam
+ Lascivious Biddies, Famous
+ Sudden Death, Pop Star
+ George Hrab, Thank You For Calling
+ Geoff Smith, Not On The Radio
+ Via the Podsafe Music Network
Reminders
+ …

Here’s the text of the poem read on yesterday’s show.
–
Suppose you screeve? or go cheap-jack?
Or fake the broads? or fig a nag?
Or thimble-rig? or knap a yack?
Or pitch a snide? or smash a rag?
Suppose you duff? or nose and lag?
Or get the straight, and land your pot?
How do you melt the multy swag?
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.
Fiddle, or fence, or mace, or mack;
Or moskeneer, or flash the drag;
Dead-lurk a crib, or do a crack;
Pad with a slang, or chuck a fag;
Bonnet, or tout, or mump and gag;
Rattle the …

3/24: Bidding wars for low income students, Russia, report cards for Congress, St. John U, jobcast, poetry, Hungry Lucy, #212
Student Financial Aid News
+ Props and a shout out to the Mommycast
+ UPenn announced it would pay for tuition, room and board for all students from families with incomes of up to $50,000
+ Enormously wealthy schools competing energetically for high ability, low-income students
+ Exceeding the levels of Harvard and Stanford, UPenn may be challenging those institutions in the kind of bidding war low-income students would love
+ MIT announces the iLab
+ Remote …

I haven’t been a subscriber, but in reviewing my web stats for this month, I noticed that the Mommycast featured our promo in Episode 68.
So…
Check out the Mommycast!
And props to Gretchen and Paige. Thanks for the promo!

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3/23: Textbook rental, two step consolidation, make your own scholarship, award letters and student loans, Matthew Ebel, #211
Student Financial Aid News
+ Bellevue Community College in suburban Seattle will join the small but growing number of colleges that allow students to rent rather than buy textbooks
+ In Florida, the House Colleges and Universities Committee unanimously passed a bill this week that would allow students to buy books without paying sales tax
+ Southeast Missouri State University has one of the longest-running programs. When students there register for classes at the start of …