tailieunhanh - Student Financial Literacy

New numbers from the College Board show that federal student loan disbursements—the total amount borrowed by students and received by schools—in the 2009–2010 academic years grew about 14% over the previous year to $ billion. At the student level, class of 2009 college seniors carried an average of $25,000 in students loans (College Board 2010). The amount of money students borrow has long been on the rise. With recent economic downfalls, this is even more of a problem than in the past. Nearly 9% of 2009 college graduates had a postgraduation job status of unemployed (Project on Student Debt 2010). Not surprisingly, student loan borrower default rates are. | Student Financial Literacy Dorothy B. Durband Sonya L. Britt Editors Student Financial Literacy Campus-Based Program Development .