By next summer, new borrowers will have just two repayment options, streamlining the previous menu to pay off ...

Since 2011, student loan debt has outgrown auto loans and credit card debt. ... Addressing the student loan crisis requires moving beyond partisan campaign rhetoric and blame games.

President Biden’s plan to cancel billions in federal student loan debt is like a piñata, you can attack it from any angle and find some reward. In short, people making less than $125,000 will ...

In 2018, Kaila Penner, co-owner of the blog Frugal Twins, drew an easy bar chart inside her bullet journal to track payments toward the last remaining $24,000 from a car loan and two student loans.

According to the Education Department, only about one-third of the nearly 43 million Americans with student loan debt have been making regular payments since collection paused in March 2020.

A 2023 anti-student debt rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court. While student loan repayments are currently stable, experts expect 5 million to default on their loans without pandemic-era safeguards.

Some 44 million Americans owe $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, and more than 7 million of them were in default prior to the pandemic repayment pause. This crushing burden is associated with ...

Since 2011, student loan debt has outgrown auto loans and credit card debt. And the financial impact extends beyond individual borrowers. When students default on loans, taxpayers ultimately bear ...