How do you spend your student loan?
Students often have a bit of a spending spree the day their loan comes through. But should they be forced to spend the money on prescribed items?

Student loans emerge as economic issue in campaign
In the state that began his White House march, President Barack Obama looked every bit the campaigner Wednesday as he told supporters that "Iowa always feels like home to me."

Student debt crisis looms
A recent study by the Institute for College Access & Success put the accrued tuition debt of a college graduate in 2009 at $25,000.
With the cost of tuition rising nearly 10 percent each year for the last three years, the trend seems to be pointing in the direction of another perfect storm on the horizon.
When the housing market collapsed and with it took the economy, hundreds of thousands of Americans reported promptly to the unemployment line.
Now with skyrocketing costs of school combining with a relatively flat job recovery pace, the next economic tipping point could be on its way.