Graduate Student Loan Program Cuts—An Ill-Conceived Idea

The recent overhaul of the student loan program by the Federal Government made headline news—not surprisingly. As part of the budget bill that was passed in July of last year, massive cutbacks in the graduate school portion of the loan program will go into effect on July 1 of this year, essentially unraveling a more than twenty-year-old initiative designed to support students looking to enhance their careers by studying for and obtaining graduate degrees in their professions.

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