Treasury Urged to Provide No Bailout Benefit to Private Student Lenders
Published 11/28/2008 by Amit R. Paley at Wash Post Federal Page
Student advocacy groups are urging the Treasury Department to prevent a new $200 billion consumer-lending program from benefiting private student lenders, which they say are largely unregulated and prey on students with risky, high-interest loans.
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