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    More States Require Finance but Not Economics in School
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    Higher Oil Prices Could Squelch Mild Relief at the Pump
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    Credit Bureaus To Ax 70% of Medical Debt From Reports
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    Equal Pay for Women? Far From It for These Jobs
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    Over Half of US Adults Support Government Action on Climate Change
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    ‘Great Resignation’ Simmers Down Slightly
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    Nearly One-Third of US Adults Supports Build Back Better
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    Is Student Loan Forgiveness Still on Biden’s Agenda?
    U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol’s House Chamber on March 1, 2022.
    Biden Address Rips Russia, Touts Anti-Inflation Plan
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    Citigroup Is Latest Bank To Back Off Overdraft Fees
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    Loan Servicers Warned About Public Servant Forgiveness
    Cook County Jail Inmates Take Part In Early Voting Ahead Of Illinois Primary
    Regulator Explores Financial Exploitation in Prisons
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    Could This Type of Student Loan Forgiveness Be Next?
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    IRS Won’t Seize Child Credit Rebates for Student Debt
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    Student Loan Repayment Looms Over Consumer Debt Picture
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    Interest Rates Are Getting Higher. Here’s What To Do
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    For People With No Credit Score, a New App Can Help
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    New Child Tax Credit Cut Hunger by 26%, Study Shows
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    More and More Banks Are Over Overdraft Fees
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    LGBTQ+ Workers Make 10% Less Money, Survey Shows
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    Feds To Probe In-House Student Loans for Potential Abuses
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    Settlement Erases Debt for 66,000 Student Borrowers
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    Bank of America, Wells Fargo Relax Fees for Overdrawing
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    Seeing Is Believing: 2021 in Charts
    White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House December 21, 2021.
    Extending the Student Loan Pause Is Back on the Table
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    What The Balance’s Readers Cared About Most in 2021
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    Millennials Spend an Average of $69 on First Dates
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    Maybe Banks Don’t Need Overdraft Fees After All
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    Why You May Be Due a Refund on Unemployment Benefit Tax
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    Public Servants Released From Student Debt ‘Sentence’
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    Christmas To Cost 17% More Than Before the Pandemic
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    Thanksgiving Dinner Costs 21% More Than It Did in 2020
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    Far Fewer High Schoolers Eye College, Survey Shows
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    Why Bad Economies Help College Students’ Careers
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    The Reason Student Loan Servicers Are Quitting
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    Feds Promise Smooth Transfer of Navient’s Student Loans
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    Why Bond Yields Are Rising
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    Another Student Loan Servicer Quits, Adding to Churn
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    How Your Personality Affects Your Paycheck
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    The Less Obvious Reasons to File a Tax Return
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    Brokerage Adds Financial Literacy to the Three R’s
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    New Site Offers Access to Financial Products in Spanish
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    More Hourly Jobs Come With Tickets to Higher Education
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    Why Your Child Tax Credit May Be Smaller Than Expected
    Beyond the Headlines
    Bad Credit Could Cost a Decade of Work, Data Shows
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    More ITT Tech Students Get Loans Wiped Out
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    Student Loan Interest Waived for 47,000 Service Members
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    Disabled Borrowers Get $5.8B in Student Loan Relief
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    5% of Households Still Unbanked Despite Outreach
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    Average FICO Score Rises Again, Helped by Pandemic
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    Will Biden’s Next Move on Student Loans Be Forgiveness?
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    Pause on Student Loan Payments Extended to 2022
    Beyond the Headlines
    Why It Might Be A Good Idea to Give Teens Credit Cards
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    Student Loan System Faces Two ‘Really Big’ Transitions
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    As Gas Prices Rise, So Does Interest in Electric Cars
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    Fewer Families Apply for College Aid, Survey Shows
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    Yes, Mortgage Rates Are Low, But You May Still Be Paying Too Much
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