<p><a href=“http://www.bankrate.com/nltrack/news/Financial_Literacy/Sept07_college_Tamara_Draut_a1.asp?caret=59a[/url]”>http://www.bankrate.com/nltrack/news/Financial_Literacy/Sept07_college_Tamara_Draut_a1.asp?caret=59a</a></p>
<p>Wondering why it’s so difficult to save up money for college? Feeling buried under student loan debt? You’re not the only one. Conditions for financing higher education have changed drastically in just one generation. Author, public policy researcher and college finance expert Tamara Draut describes the challenges college students and their parents face, how the financial aid system has changed and what’s on the horizon.</p>
<p>This article talks about employer/insurance use of credti ratings, inability to use bankruptcy for student loans, late 20’s-early 30’s parents still paying their own student loans and facing higher starter home costs so not able to save, etc and how this affects today’s recent college graduates. </p>
<p>Be warned, lots of advertising on this site but some interesting tidbits in this article anyway.</p>