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Are Private Student Loans Eligible for Forgiveness?
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Biden ‘Weeks’ From Student Loan Forgiveness Decision
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How ‘Shadow’ Debt Dogs Students at For-Profit Schools
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Most US Adults Don't Support Student Loan Cancellation
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64% of US Adults Want the Government To Tax the Rich
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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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When Will Gas Prices Go Down?
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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?
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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
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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
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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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Many Young People Saying No to College Again This Year
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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
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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
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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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With Child Tax Credit, Teacher ‘Might Quit’ Side Job