SALT LAKE CITY — College students are drowning in credit card debt, with nearly 65% carrying balances, while parents wait too long to have essential financial conversations, according to research. A ...

It's no secret that higher education is expensive. Although Texans owe less per borrower than their peers nationwide, $33,770 is the average student loan debt in Texas, according to the Education Data ...

Before 1980, student debt was the exception, not the rule. In 1978, Congress expanded federal student loans to all college students, regardless of income. When those first newly eligible students ...

Despite recent headlines, taking out a student loan can sometimes be a good thing. Here’s one reason why: For many Americans, taking out a student loan is a rite of passage toward becoming ...

Student debt is often treated as a problem for young adults just starting out. In the South, it is increasingly something else: a multigenerational economic strain colliding with a region that ...

'I just keep hoping that it will just magically go away or I'll just die': A growing feature of the nation's $1.7 trillion student-debt crisis is Americans living with student loans for their entire ...

When Marie Muhammad graduated from Wayne State University in December 2017, she was saddled with more than $50,000 in college loan debt. Making less $15 an hour as a lab technician after graduation, ...