clipped from: www.washingtonpost.com With the Obama administration proposing to overhaul the programs a majority of American students use to finance their college education, the student loan industry is fighting back.
The administration is calling for sweeping changes to the decades-old approach of providing federal subsides to private loan companies, arguing that the revamp will save $94 billion that can be redirected to needy borrowers and help even more people go to college. But the industry and its congressional allies are countering that it would add billions to the national debt, put thousands of industry employees out of work and provide shoddy service for borrowers.
"The Obama plan would mean that many lenders would lose 100 percent of their business," said Mark Kantrowitz, an industry analyst and publisher of FinAid.org. "It would be a dramatic shift for the way this industry works."