Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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Here’s How Much the Class of 2016 Owes on Their Student Loans
Students who graduated from college in 2016 with educational loans borrowed slightly less to pay for school than those who finished in 2015, new data shows.
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The Best Colleges for Older Students
By 2020, nearly one in five students in higher educations will be over the age of 35.
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5 Things You Need to Know About the New FAFSA Deadline for College Aid
High school seniors who are college-bound may still be visiting schools and studying for their SATs, but they need to add one more task to their fall to-do list: Fill out the FAFSA. In previous years...
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Clinton's Public College Plan Gives Wealthy Kids a Free Education
By Preston CooperDemocrats may finally be waking up to the reality that free tuition at all public colleges and universities would be a giveaway to richer Americans who do not need help paying for higher education...
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Here’s Why You Should Never Co-Sign a Loan
By Janna HerronOf course, you want to help your kid out. But skip co-signing that car loan unless you’re willing and able to foot the entire bill, because there’s a good chance you’ll have to. Almost two in five co...
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6 Ways Student Loan Payments Are Making Our Lives Worse
The high cost of student loans is continuing to affect Americans’ life choices, to the point that many people say they would have selected a cheaper way of getting a college education if they had it...
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The Hidden Cost of a College Education
Now that a few weeks have passed since National College Decision Day, the elation (and relief) of finally committing to a school may be wearing off. You probably already calculated the financial aid...
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Which Money Worries Keep You Up at Night?
By Janna HerronThree in five adults are losing sleep over financial anxieties, according to a new poll, with women more likely to find themselves up at night than men. Older Americans were the most likely to get a...
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How You Can Escape Student Loan Repayment
By Millie DentIf your dream job is to be a teacher, a public defender or to milk cows in North Dakota, you’re in luck. A number of programs will forgive your student loan debt—if you’re eligible. These state and...
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How Obama Wants to Make It Easier to Pay Your Student Loan
By Brianna McGurran, NerdWalletCan you name your student loan servicer? If the federal government’s new proposal goes according to plan, you won’t have to. The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it wants to...
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How Online Education Can Save Our Universities
By Peter Wood, Minding the CampusThe wolf at the door of American higher education is online instruction . Traditional residential colleges hear it snuffling at the threshold. They know they are vulnerable. They cannot compete on...
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Harvard Confirms It: The Rent Is Too Damn High
By Diana Olick, CNBCSince the housing crisis began in 2008, approximately 4.6 million homes were lost to foreclosure, according to CoreLogic. The vast majority of those homeowners became renters. Even as housing...
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Why ‘Easy’ Student Loans Are a Moral Hazard
By Gary Jason, Minding the CampusHere, in a nutshell, is the human toll of the student-loan mess: It is forcing many recent grads to defer marriage and having children; it is hobbling many prospective entrepreneurs that our economy...
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Millennials Jump Ship over Obamacare Bait and Switch
It took long enough for the demographic that will pay the most for Obamacare to finally figure it out. Now that the wealth transfer from younger and healthier adults to older sicker ones through...
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6 Steps to Ease the Student Debt Crisis
By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal TimesCollege graduates are sinking in a sea of student debt that just keeps getting deeper.