Monthly Archives: March 2014

My daughter starts college in the fall. I don’t mind prefacing here that I’m only 38 and it seems like I just finished college myself like, you know, yesterday. So the fact that my wife and I started a family … Continue reading →

With President Obama signing the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act into law (Congress included the bill in the landmark health insurance overhaul), it marks the end of decades of unnecessary subsidies to banks and will save taxpayers $61 billion … Continue reading →

AlamySwedish students wear their traditional graduation hats as they celebrate graduation day. In Sweden, college is free. But that doesn’t mean that those students don’t wind up with debt. When it comes to college tuition, we tend to focus on … Continue reading →

Given the hard time experienced workers are having finding jobs (much less securing raises), it comes as no surprise that recent college graduates are experiencing their own problems.A new survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that … Continue reading →

By DANIEL WAGNERWASHINGTON (AP) – Risky lending caused private student loan debt to balloon in the past decade, leaving many Americans struggling to pay off loans that they can’t afford, a government study says.Private lenders gave out money without considering … Continue reading →

My mother, a social worker, once asked a middle school guidance counselor what separated the kids who did well from the kids who didn’t.”Oh, that’s easy,” she replied. “The parents have their own lives.”It’s a line that parents would do … Continue reading →

In the world of online personal finance services, each site performs the standard tracking and reporting features respectably, but it’s the execution and additional features that make a service standout. For Yodlee, which powers Mint.com and 32 of the top … Continue reading →

A DailyFinance reader sent this question to me recently: “I believe that any college with a good dance program (I am a dance major) will be expensive. I want to get a good dance education, but I really don’t want … Continue reading →

Sallie Mae is a huge student loan company, and often times it can be difficult to get routed to the correct department to straighten out your loan issue. Earlier this week I shared a simple plan for using your congressman … Continue reading →

By DANIEL WAGNERWASHINGTON — It took Mario Parker-Milligan less than a semester to decide that he was paying too many fees to Higher One, the company hired by his college to pay out students’ financial aid on debit cards.Four years … Continue reading →