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Category: Personal Finances
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How Financial Trauma Affects Your Relationship With Money
Experiences like economic hardship or medical expenses can distort people’s feelings and behaviors around money, causing them to sabotage their financial futures.
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Many Student Loan Borrowers Will Continue to Struggle After Supreme Court Ruling
Those who didn’t complete their degrees and many parents are among the borrowers likely to face challenging times ahead.
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What Will Happen to Your Student Loans Now
The pandemic pause on student loan payments will end soon, but a new system for calculating repayments may lower monthly bills.
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Six Ways You Can Still Cancel Your Student Debt
The Supreme Court’s decision on student loan cancellation does not change programs that help public servants and low-income or disabled borrowers.
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Retiree Medical Costs Expected to Stay Flat in 2023
An estimate puts the average cost over a 20-year retirement at about $157,000. That’s almost double the estimate in 2002.
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How Transparency on College Costs Could Increase Diversity
One way to preserve diversity now that the Supreme Court has ruled against two colleges’ race-based admissions policies: Tell people the true price.
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How People in the Queer Community Think About Personal Finance
The cost of family planning and transition care — and other personal finance stories from L.G.B.T.Q. people.
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Stocks May Be Booming but Don’t Forget Cash and Bonds
At the moment, money market funds and many bonds are not only less risky, but at current interest rates, they are compelling.
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Student Loan Pause Is Ending, With Consequences for Economy
Three years of relief from payments on $1.6 trillion in student debt allowed for other borrowing and spending — and will shift into reverse.
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How Pay Transparency Laws Help and Limit Job Seekers
Salary disclosure laws have been a boon for workers searching for jobs that pay fairly — but only when the advertised pay bands are narrow enough to be useful.