Does leaving for college mean leaving your faith? It doesn’t have to…
As soaring tuition scares off many families, a growing number of private colleges have embraced a marketing tactic associated more with selling airline tickets or flat-screen televisions than higher education: a price cut. Read the article here.
About one-tenth of college students say they’re homeless, according to Goldrick-Rab’s research.Read the article here.
Young people are getting paid less than their contemporaries in the year 2000. Take a look at the data here.
As worries about student debt rise, states and businesses increasingly push faster, cheaper paths to the workplace; parents are stumped. Read the article here.
Some conversations that families need to have around the topic of money. Read the article here.
USA Today highlights experiences with so-called student loan debt help companies. Read the article here.
From the CNBC article:
“Forget buying a home — even renting a room is out of reach to many young people, especially in big cities. Wages have stagnated but rents haven’t, meaning workers just out of college are in a bind: To live where the jobs are, they need help.
For almost half of them, though they don’t often admit it, that help comes from their parents.”
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We’ve all seen the staggering student loan debt statistics: It averages more than $20,000 and 69% of Millennials have student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve of New York. What the numbers don’t tell us is what is going on in Millennials’ minds before they take on this debt.
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About half of students blow some of their school loan money on non-educational expenses, including 3% who spent it on alcohol and drugs, according to a new Student Loan Hero survey.
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Have a high-schooler in the house? Here’s what you need to teach them, pronto.
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