Entering young adulthood saddled with debt has become standard for many who want an undergraduate degree, sometimes to the tune of tens-of-thousands of dollars. Around 45% of 2025 high school graduates will go on to a four-year college, according to NerdWallet analysis, and more than one-third of them will take on student loans to pay for their
Do college graduates have regrets about their chosen majors? With the rising cost of college, Americans currently owe nearly $1.8 trillion in student loan debt. What majors are worth the money? The U.S. Department of Education will restart involuntary student loan collections on May 5. Borrowers in default for 270 days or more will face
The path to working on Wall Street is a long and rigorous obstacle course. Young people who aspire to become dealmakers, traders, or investors must now begin as soon as they arrive at college. From there, it’s an immediate dash to join campus finance clubs, hobnob with industry professionals, and fill a résumé with pre-internship
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The Department of Education provides money to local school districts. It spends billions of dollars on special education. But more than anything else? It operates like a bank. More than 40 million Americans are