Problems with the New Student Loan Pilot Program


 

Publication Date: September 1987

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Robert J. Staaf

Research Area: Education

Keywords: Government reform

Type: Report

Abstract:

As long as Guaranteed Student Loans and other highly subsidized loan programs are available, the ICL pilot program will provide little or no useful information regarding the impact on default rates or the deficit of changing the entire federal loan program to a version of ICL. In fact, the five-year pilot program will reveal very little, except perhaps that the students who enroll in it know little about financial principles.