Bureaucracy and discrimination were likely behind the delay in funding.

Wondering what that big line around the Convention Center is for? We were too. Turns out that people have been queuing up outside the building since yesterday morning, documentation in hand, in order to get help with renegotiating and understanding their home loans.

Photo by clgregor Via a Wall Street Journal story we missed yesterday, it seems college grads in Washington, D.C. graduate with the most debt in the country, according to a new study from the Project on Student Debt. Like every list we see that compares the District to states, we take this distinction with a grain or two of salt, but given that D.C. is home to one of the most expensive universities in…

Belgium’s population is 97% urbanized. Crazy, eh? So, it makes sense that the country of decadent waffles and Peter Paul Rubens is pretty boffo for mass transit. The country’s population is connected through an impressive network of rail systems, both on a local and national level, including currently expanding Metros in Antwerp, Ghent and Brussels. Let’s just say that if there ever was a country made for mass transit, the massively dense Belgium is probably…

Many of us with loans through Sallie Mae have nightmarish stories regarding our dealings with the company, but we’re hearing word of a new, special kind of financial screwing of which our readers may want to take note. Yesterday a college friend sent me this article, screaming that her FICO score suddenly dropped 120 points overnight. Apparently Sallie Mae switched the way they describe the “status” of loan holders who use the graduated payment plan…