Did Congress Cut Interest Rates on the Wrong Student Loans?

Congress and the president are about to get an earful from angry college students and parents. Lawmakers just cut the interest rate on the wrong type of federal student loans. At least, that’s one take on a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report.The CBO announced yesterday that most federal student loans made this coming school year will charge interest rates high enough to earn the government a profit. The only exception: Subsidized Stafford loans for undergraduates. Those loans still provide enough benefits to borrowers to show a cost to the government – and that was before Congress and the president agreed to cut the interest rate on those loans to 3.4 percent for another year.To read the full post, visit Ed Money Watch.
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