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Student Loan Repayment Could Be 2017’s Hottest Employee Benefit
Stephen Baillie had just started working at Chegg when the company introduced one of today’s most sought-after work perks: help paying off student loan debt. Baillie signed up immediately, and for...
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Ask The Expert: Do I Have To Pay For My Ex-Husband’s Decisions?
Question: I’m a non-custodial mother. I’m paying 17.5 percent child support through wage garnishment to my ex-husband for our 18 year-old-son. He just started college, and the ex wants me to pay half...
View ArticleNow You Can Sell Shares in Yourself to Pay for College
Taking out another high-interest private student loan seemed like the only option for Amy Wroblewski this fall. The 21-year-old native of Lafayette, Ind., was working two part-time jobs and had maxed...
View ArticleEnd This Unfair Tax on Student Loan Borrowers!
The persistent but gratuitous idea that there is a national student debt crisis is hard to escape these days. It’s surprising, then, that there has been little effort put toward ending the tax levied...
View ArticleA Hot New Way to Pay for College Makes Parents Suspicious
A new option for paying for college is dogged by suspicion and controversy, the American Enterprise Institute has found. For more than 60 years, economists have been trying to persuade colleges,...
View ArticleSocial Security Checks Are Shrinking Due to Unpaid Student Loans
If you’re an older American still saddled with student loan debt, your government benefits could be taking a hit. A new report from the Government Accountability Office has found that tens of...
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Most Employees Don’t Get the Student Loan Help They Need
We spend the majority of our time after college just trying to find work in our field that will pay our bills. One of the first bills is… paying for the education we just got. But student loan debt is...
View ArticleAge 60, Nearing Retirement … and Still Stuck With Student Debt
It’s not just millennials who are struggling with student debt. The number of older borrowers with outstanding student loan debt hit 2.8 million in 2015—a whopping four times the number a decade...
View ArticleOne Surprising Race Gap That Still Dogs Millennials
Young adults are more likely to live with their parents now than at any time in the past 75 years. And there’s a popular narrative that puts much of the blame on the record levels of student debt that...
View ArticleMore Than 800 College Programs — Including One at Harvard — Stick Graduates...
More than 800 career education programs saddle students with debt they can’t afford to pay, the federal government said Monday, pointing the finger primarily at for-profit programs, but also at...
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Ask The Expert: How Do I Tell My Fiancee? [video]
Question: I want to ask my girlfriend to marry. Trust me, she wants that, too. She’s not subtle with the hints. (I dread walking by jewelry stores in the mall, because now she makes lots of comments...
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Ask The Expert: Declare Bankruptcy Before Or After My Wedding? [video]
Question: I have got $12,000 in student loans, and coincidentally, my girl has $12,000 on her credit cards. So we’re both kinda screwed, but at least she has lots of clothes and tech, while I got a...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren Blasts Bankers. Why Would She Want One Running Education?
During Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing on Tuesday, Senate Democrats highlighted a series of factors that, they say, make the Michigan businesswoman wildly unqualified to run the Education...
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Trump Could Be Great for Your Student Loan Debt
“I’m the king of debt. I love debt,” Donald Trump told CNN (“fake news!”) last May. I’m not fond of debt. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, one that requires a few bankruptcies? Either way, my distaste is...
View Article6 Ways America’s Biggest Student Loan Company May Be Screwing You
The country’s largest student loan servicer has just been hit by a trio of new lawsuits — and the legal filings allege some particularly nasty practices. Navient, which broke off from Sallie Mae in...
View ArticleStudent Loans Could Be the Next Mortgage Mess. Here’s a Radical Fix
Sheila Bair, who as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation from 2006 through 2011 was one of the few officials to warn of the 2008 mortgage crisis, is now hoping to forestall a similar mess...
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25 Things I Learned About Betsy DeVos By Reading Her Own Words
Heavens to Betsy — we now have a Secretary of Education who has no idea how much student loan debt the federal government holds. Or, apparently, what to do about it. “The amount of student debt — over...
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Need College Money? Be a Sugar Baby
Student loan debt is more than $1.3 trillion across the country and young people heading off to college isn’t slowing down. But you may not need a loan to make it through school — if you’re a sugar...
View ArticleNew TurboTax Deal Has a Big Catch
Got student loans? Your tax software has an offer for you. The country’s largest tax prep software has partnered with a student loan refinance company to deliver loan offers right as you’re filling...
View Article5 Smart Pieces of State Debt Legislation
Republicans now wield almost absolute power in Congress and in the White House. But it looks like they’re so used to being the opposition, they can’t form and agree on coherent ideas. “GOP governors...
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