The Internet Is Probably Telling You That Filing A Specific Privacy Complaint Can Wipe Out Your Student Loans. Here's What You Need To Know
It seems like suddenly everyone is an "expert" on FERPA, an obscure privacy law that most of us had never heard of a week ago ...
My daughter bought a $350,000 home and took out $20,000 in personal loans. She’s fallen behind on payments. What now?
My daughter bought a home for roughly $350,000 then took out two loans for $20,000. I’ve heard debt consolidation is a bad ...
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Medical debt relief legislation announcement [RAW]
Minnesota leaders announced new legislation meant to address medical debt for residents in the state. The legislation includes a partnership with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that focuses on ...
Americans are piling on debt at a furious pace, as tariffs loom
Americans kept piling on debt during the holiday season, opening up a large number of new credit cards and stalling - at least for now - a hope that credit-card delinquencies would start reversing ...
What Is The Debt Ceiling, And What Could Defaulting Mean?
The debt ceiling is the legal limit on the total amount of federal debt that the US government can have outstanding. Read ...
Debt consolidation loan vs. debt consolidation program: Which is better with inflation rising again?
Increasing inflation could have an impact on the type of debt consolidation it makes sense to pursue right now.
What is Trump doing - and not doing - to tackle the US debt?
President Donald Trump has pursued a radical overhaul of the U.S. government since taking office on January 20, aiming to ...
Experian study: Average U.S. consumer debt and statistics
Experian examined representative and anonymized credit data through Q3 2024 to identify trends within average and total debt ...
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Ecuador’s next debt-for-nature deal falls short of Indigenous involvement
Ecuador completed a debt-for-nature swap to support Amazon conservation through the creation of the Amazon Biocorridor. While ...
Program to erase medical debt in Wayne Co. shows insured workers may be struggling most
Most of the medical debt didn't belong to the poorest patients, but rather insured people in the middle and lower-middle ...
'CFPB RIP': Musk and Trump's plans to shrink an agency that cracks down on medical debt and overdraft fees are underway
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a halt on most of the CFPB's work. It could impact rules on overdraft fees, ...
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U.S. Debt by President: Dollar and Percentage
Hiranmayi Srinivasan is an Associate Editor for Investopedia. She has covered personal finance topics such as budgeting, saving, investing, and economic news at Investopedia since 2021, and has ...