fizkes | iStock | Getty Images Outstanding student loan debt in the U.S. has climbed to $1.7 trillion, a balance that is not evenly distributed among college graduates. Certain groups are far more burdened than others. President Joe Biden is now considering whether or not to reduce or eliminate those burdens by forgiving student debt.
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urbazon | E+ | Getty Images For some would-be homeowners, coming up with the cash to buy a house can be tricky. Depending on your situation, a Roth individual retirement account could help. In a nutshell, up to $10,000 in Roth IRA earnings can be withdrawn — free of both taxes and penalty — for
Students wearing protective masks raise their hands in a classroom as a teacher gives a lesson remotely at a public charter school in Provo, Utah, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. George Frey | Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s a question many a personal finance educator has asked: What’s the best way to engage my
In this article PFE Once children over age 12 are eligible for Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, the question of whether they will have to get it before going back to school in the fall will remain. “Like everything with Covid, this is going to be a school district by school district decision,” said Sharon Masling, a
Delmaine Donson | E+ | Getty Images A new set of $1,400 stimulus checks has been sent, bringing the total number of payments issued to 164 million, or about $386 billion. About 1.1 million payments were sent this time, representing more than $2 billion. About 600,000 of those payments were made using direct deposit, while
Unemployment applications are seen as City of Hialeah employees hand them out to people in front of the John F. Kennedy Library on April 08, 2020 in Hialeah, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Workers asked to repay unemployment benefits issued during the Covid pandemic may be getting a refund. However, it may take states up to
President Joe Biden during a May 3 visit to Yorktown Elementary School in Yorktown, Virginia. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The latest economic recovery plan from President Joe Biden significantly expands school lunch programs for children. If passed, it would provide free school lunch during summer break to 29 million children. The $1.8 trillion American Families
Austin Hossfeld and his wife, Hayley. Photo: Austin Hossfeld Every day, Austin Hossfeld types the same words into Google: “Biden” and “student loans.” “A lot of the times, it’s the same articles,” Austin, 26, said. “I re-read them. “At night, I talk to my wife about it.” Like so many other Americans, the Carroll, Ohio,
Images By Tang Ming Tung The U.S. government has sent billions of dollars in stimulus checks to Americans since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet some people may still be asking, “Where is my money?” If you feel that you may have been left in the lurch, there is a way to claim the
Yagi Studio | DigitalVision | Getty Images Needing documents to travel is nothing new — after all, checking in for a flight requires some form of ID and, if you’re bound for somewhere foreign, it’ll have to be a passport. The same goes for car or train trips that cross the U.S. border, where from