by Holly Deaton | Oct 21, 2020 | News, Personal Finance
Robert Kueffer had always planned on going to graduate school but the global pandemic and economic uncertainty have fast-forwarded his plans. Kueffer, who lost his job in February, moved back home to live with his parents in Wisconsin. After months of searching, he...
by Erika Wheless | Oct 21, 2020 | News, Personal Finance
What would you do if you didn’t have to make your student loan payments? Millions of federal student loan borrowers are finding out. Back in March, in an effort to ease the financial pain accompanying staggering levels of unemployment from the coronavirus, the U.S....
by Colin Kern | Oct 20, 2020 | News, Personal Finance
Sherry Dorestan, 34, was excited to send her five-year-old daughter to kindergarten. However, after two delayed school openings and new school closings in selected areas of New York City, Dorestan felt uneasy about the public school’s ‘blended learning’ model. “It...
by Sonya Swink | Oct 18, 2020 | News, Personal Finance
The bad economy caused by COVID-19 has many Americans wondering if they’ll ever retire, but for a growing number of people the pandemic inspired a goal to retire by their 40s or 30s. More workers see using their savings in order to stop relying upon a...
by Harini Chakrapani | Oct 18, 2020 | News, Personal Finance
Alesia Williams was 41 when she became a single mother in 2006. Now a speech pathologist, she has come a long way since losing her job and home, raising her infant children in a shelter and relying on food stamps to remain independent. But when Covid-19 struck, the...
by Ana Lucia Murillo | Oct 18, 2020 | News, Personal Finance
Permanent layoffs are becoming more common more than half a year into the pandemic, but some companies are continuing to use short-term, temporary furloughs to avoid more drastic budget cuts. The University of Massachusetts and American University have both...
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