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Student Loan Interest to Double if Congress Doesn’t Act

Students are taking out record amounts of student loans in to pay for college degrees to secure their financial future with a good paying job. Unfortunately, after students earn a degree ...
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Latinos and student loan debt in the United States

The goal of My Story Of Debt is to illustrate the ways our higher education system (and its financiers) currently fails students and has a particularly harmful impact on Latino, immigrant ...
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Thinking About Night Classes? It’s a Good Idea!

For most students, going to school at night is not usually the first choice. If, however, you are an independent student who has to work full time to pay for school, it may provide ...
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Why You MUST Start Budgeting Now

Financial health is almost as important as physical and mental health. In order to reach optimal financial health, creating a budget is mandatory. A budget shows you where your money ...
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How to Save on Everyday Items

There are many ways to be frugal and save money and all it takes is time, ingenuity and a desire to save money! And who doesn’t want to save money in these difficult economic times? 1. ...
Financial Benefits of Getting a College Degree

Financial Benefits of Getting a College Degree

It’s time for you to head off to college but you’ve found a job that you would like to take instead. After all, why go to college when you can go to work and start making money? ...
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Finding the Best Major for You

Whether the crisis comes the first week of school or when your university begs you to finally get around to graduating, at some point you are going to need to declare a major.  Unfortunately, ...
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Graduate in Just Four Years

Despite what Hollywood tells us, it isn’t actually all that easy to get through college in 4 years.  A lot of programs involve a step-ladder style education that has to be done in ...
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Petition for HR 4170

With the common thread we all seem to share of being overwhelmed with student loan debt increasing due to interest rates, tuition costs, etc., there is finally some encouraging news! ...
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Can you afford to send your child to college?

The chances that your child will want to attend college following high school are pretty great, especially today when there is so much emphasis in a college education for a high-paying ...
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