New Data Reveals A Growing Class Of Americans: Educated But Not Wealthy
41.5% of recent college graduates are underemployed, per NY Fed data. Here’s why more education isn’t automatically producing more wealth.

The Department of Education is emailing IDR applicants that an error produced incorrect payment amounts and they must reapply. Here’s how to check your status.

41.5% of recent college graduates are underemployed, per NY Fed data. Here’s why more education isn’t automatically producing more wealth.

Here is what each spouse needs to know about being married with student loan debt, and how it can help or hurt your marriage emotionally.

More than 80 House Democrats demand Education Secretary Linda McMahon reverse plans moving civil rights enforcement to DOJ and special education to HHS.

Oklahoma newborns given $1,000 in 529 accounts in 2007 sent $349,550 to 70 schools in year one. New SEED OK data shows use didn’t vary by race or income.

Discover what the Temporary Expanded PSLF opportunity is, where it came from, who is eligible, and what the limits are.

The DOJ found UC San Diego’s medical school used race in admissions, admitting Black applicants at over double the rate of white applicants after SFFA.

The Justice Department opened a Title VI investigation into whether Harvard’s China-funded financial aid programs discriminate against American students.

A federal judge ruled OMB’s “agency priorities” clause doesn’t let Trump officials cancel grants already awarded, protecting $5.39B in state funding.

We break down when dollar cost averaging is a good investment strategy, and when you should consider lump sum investing.

Warren pressed Treasury nominee Francis Brooke on whether 450,000 seniors with defaulted student loans will face Social Security cuts of $2,000+ a year.

The student loan tax bomb returns in 2026. History says few ever paid it, but millions now near forgiveness. See what the IRS data reveals.
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