The federal government also promised college students in 2007 that student loans would be forgiven after 10 years of work in public service professions. Of the

The federal government also promised college students in 2007 that student loans would be forgiven after 10 years of work in public service professions. Of the first 29,000 applications filed with the Department of Education to take advantage of this promise, 96 were approved. That's an approval rate of 0.33 percent.