Denied

At least one million community college students lack access to federal loans, not because of the credit crunch, but because their schools don't participate in the federal loan programs. This pushes students who need to borrow to resort to risky private loans, payday loans, and credit cards, or to drop out or reduce their course load. Our brief also finds significant gaps in loan access between racial and ethnic groups.

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Related items:

	Read the press release
	List of enrollment and loan program participation status of community colleges
	Read the press release from the North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research