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    <author><![CDATA[lori in bklyn]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This is wonderful news for many! But, anyone who graduated law school (or any other grad type) before 2006 has a TON of private loans that don't qualify at all. =( <br />
So the incentives for public interest or government careers work for newbies... but I'll be paying it off until I'm 60+ because I choose to work for the state... and my minimum monthly payment is over a grand for the next decade....
        
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      <![CDATA[Great idea, but wouldn't it make just as much - if not MORE sense - to reduce tuition rates, so students didn't have to BORROW so much in the first place?
        
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      <![CDATA[The scary thing? This happened under Dubya. Yup, he signed this one into law. I suddenly have conflicted emotions...oh wait, no I don't. Still dislike him.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm paying college tuition and textbooks out of pocket right now.<br />
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      <![CDATA[My monthly payments on my loan are $50 and yet it seems to be shrinking at twice that rate.
        
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      <![CDATA[I make $48,000 a year, which is too much for this to benefit me if I filed separately from my wife. We figured it out the other night and I'd save something like $800 over the course of the loan. Oh well, I'm sure it will help out a lot of others, though.
        
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      <![CDATA[Would have been nice if they had this 15 years ago when the only job I could find paid $6.50 an hour and they wanted payments of $350 a month. I didn't qualify for income-based forbearance, I was taking care of a sick parent, and I was trying to survive on about $1000 a month. Yeah, I defaulted, and I'm still paying as a result.<br />
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Oh, and because I consolidated way back then, I'm locked into a 9% interest rate.
        
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      <![CDATA[how I wish this were in place before I paid off my student loan - I've been working in non-profits since 1991!
        
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      <![CDATA[First off, great news.<br>
Secondly, the cartoon monster was cute.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's not a bailout.<br />
It's just that the fucking slacker portion of Generation X is too big to fail.
        
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      <![CDATA[This is the most exciting news I've heard since I learned my masters thesis was accepted!
        
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