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    <title>Some Nonprofit Student Lenders Accused of Misconduct</title>
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&lt;p&gt;As the cost of college continues to skyrocket, students are increasingly seeking loans from nonprofits—state-based organizations often viewed as an attractive alternative to for-profit lenders synonymous with Wall Street excess.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But some nonprofit student lenders have been dogged, like their for-profit competitors, by allegations of misconduct.&lt;span class=&quot;read-more&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/stories/2010/01/some-nonprofit-student-lenders-accused-misconduct&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Read more &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>How Nonprofits Won Special Treatment in Student Lending Bill</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is the first in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://huffpostfund.org/blog/2010/01/05/our-joint-project-student-lending-industry&quot;&gt;series of articles&lt;/a&gt; on student lending reported in partnership with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;read-more&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;/stories/2010/01/how-nonprofits-won-special-treatment-student-lending-bill&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Read more &amp;raquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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