Graduation season has once again concluded, and 1.9 million Americans have left college behind and graduated with a bachelor’s degree. The social and cultural pressures to attend college are high, and the financial expense to do so is just as acute. Major presidential candidates gin up their base by empathetically promising to absolve the self-inflicted…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ethan Barton Social Security benefits were withheld from an estimated 114,000 individuals of at least 50 years in age as of 2015 in order to repay their student loan debts, a congressional watchdog reported Tuesday. “An increasing number of older Americans have defaulted on their federal student loan debt,”…
A recent study has revealed an unfortunate side effect of our floundering economy. A stagnant job market and staggering student loan debt has left struggling young people with little recourse other than to save money where they can, no matter how embarrassing the measures. It’s now estimated that one-third of people 18 to 34 years…