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Students affected by foreclosure crisis

The current foreclosure crisis is now affecting thousands of students that are seeking loans to complete their education. Students and parents are complaining that the student loans are almost impossible to get. The lack of these loans is forcing many students to drop out of school.

With the foreclosed home crisis, the lenders have increased the prerequisite for qualification. The list of qualifications is tough, and keeps the loans out of reach for the students. What seems to have increased even more the problem was the $38 billion pull by the federal government on student loan subsidies, and that money was what allowed lenders to offer rates that students could afford.

The mortgage crisis is affecting real estate brokers, lenders, home values, builders and now making our students drop education, and despite of all that, many politicians are saying that the worst have passed. On Monday Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has announced that this is happening and that the crisis is affecting every sector of our economy. If those lawmakers do not propose any bills and solutions for the crisis the problem only tends to get worse.