Know How to Talk to Your Student Loan Servicer

Servicers can guide you through the confusing world of student loans, but you need to help your servicer help you. In the student loan industry, the Department of Education hires servicers specifically to provide customer...

Why employers may want to help out on the mountain of student loan debt

Eight in 10 workers with student loans say they would value working for a firm that ponies up money to help pay off their debt. Less than 5 percent of companies now offer student loan...

Digitalization Among Factors Pushing Millennial Credit Preferences Toward Auto and Personal Loans

New TransUnion study explores Millennial and Generation X credit dynamics As the first generation to be fully immersed in mass-market digitalization, Millennials are slowing their credit card usage while increasingly using other credit products such...

Opinion: Democrats will avoid the real causes of the student loan crisis at Wednesday’s...

The real cause of the student loan debt crisis is clear: Liquidity provided by the federal government enables colleges and universities to raise their prices. The next Battle of the Goodie Bags will take place...

Yes, student loans really are making millennials go broke

Ten years after America’s largest financial institutions upended the economic livelihood of millions of millennials entering the job market, a new report from the Federal Reserve confirms what we already knew: millennials are broke. Post-recession,...

Many Americans are feeling these 3 big financial stresses

This article is reprinted by permission from NextAvenue.org. If you look only at the nation’s low, 3.7% unemployment rate, it would be easy to assume that the economy’s humming and that Americans are feeling great...

Mortgage rates drop once again — sparking more interest in loan refinancing

Mortgage rates fell yet again on a weekly basis thanks to the declining yield on Treasury notes. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 3.57% during the week ending Oct. 10, down 8 basis pointsfrom the previous...

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