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Financial Wellness Programs Gain Traction
Workplace wellness isn't just about your physical fitness anymore. Many employers have broadened the concept beyond health care to include programs that help workers get their finances in shape. "I think financial wellness is becoming more than a buzzword," says [...]
The Mental and Physical Toll of Student Loans
As the use of student loans escalates, so too do conversations about the possible ramifications of increasingly high debt for young Americans. It's widely known that inability to pay student debt can result in a host of problems, like damaged [...]
Activists Launch ‘Debt Strike’ Against College Chain
Fifteen former Corinthian Colleges students announce refusal of loan repayment as part of new anti-debt campaign The debt forgiveness movement born out of Occupy Wall Street has entered a new stage in its activism around student loans. On Monday a [...]
Americans are having more trouble paying off their student debt than their houses.
Americans are struggling to make timely payments on student loans, according to new data from researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — even as we dutifully shrink other types of balances. Student-loan delinquencies increased at the end [...]
For-profit College to Pay for Predatory Lending
Corinthian College students to get some relief from high-interest loans Thousands of college students who got roped into taking out high-cost loans to attend a for-profit college are getting some relief. Students of Corinthian College will get about $480 million [...]
‘We won’t pay’: Students in Debt Take on For-profit College Institution
Nathan Hornes didn’t think he’d still be working in fast food on his 25th birthday. He had a plan: he wanted to be a pop singer-songwriter and had moved from Missouri to Los Angeles after his 2008 high school graduation [...]
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