FINANCES AFTER FINALS

Total Outstanding Student Loan Debt

1.5

TRILLION

Average Student Loan Debt Per Borrower

$ 0

(Class of 2016)

Percentage of Borrowers in Default

10.7%

(90+ Days Past Due)

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Free Money Fridays: 3 Ways to Save

Current Balance: $28,724. On Fridays, my goal is to provide either some easy ways to save money or some easy...
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Emergency Fund?

Emergency Fund?

Current Balance: $28,697If you've every read a book on budgeting or finances, there's usually a step or chapter that involves...
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Budgeting 101

Budgeting 101

Current Balance: $28,667.I figured I need to write about budgeting because I tend to bring it up in quite a...
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Latest News

October 19, 2018

America’s Student Loan Debt Crisis Deepens

The loans have seen almost 157 percent in cumulative growth over the last 11 years
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October 16, 2018

America’s $1.5 trillion student debt is a ‘failed social experiment’

A new paper from the Roosevelt Institute says these loans are not a benign way to help young people attend...
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October 8, 2018

How This New Navient Lawsuit Affects Your Student Loans

Members of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest teachers union in the U.S., filed a lawsuit against Navient,...
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