Student Loan Ranger: Understand Why Federal Budgets Matter to Students

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Keeping track of the federal budget process is difficult in the best of times, and the creation of the fiscal year 2012 budget was even more convoluted than usual. We've attempted to keep you up to date on some of the twists and turns concerning educational debt, including the impact on Pell Grants of the federal budget compromise negotiated in April 2011 and the elimination of the "in-school interest subsidy" on subsidized Stafford loans for graduate and professional students that accompanied the lifting of the debt ceiling in August. Read more at US News Education Student Loan Ranger.