The student loan system is in desperate need of reform as graduates struggle to find work and pay off their student loans. Learn about changes that can help.
New data offers further confirmation of a crisis in the U.S. student loan portfolio, in which too many borrowers are not ...
Millions of Americans hold student debt, and the rise in delinquencies shows that borrowers are struggling to afford repayments.
Student debt has transformed prenuptial (prenup) agreements from wealth preservation tools into debt shields. Seventy-seven percent of Americans with student loans would consider a prenup, according ...
Millions of student loan borrowers will see the “light at the end of the tunnel” after the Trump administration agreed to reinstate loan forgiveness plans it had partially blocked following a court ...
'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 ...
The Education Department’s massive overhaul of student loans entered the final stage of a lengthy administrative process with the publication of final rules.
Moby THE GIST. At the end of 2025, U.S. households ran up more debt than they had ever before — about $19 trillion in ...
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Debt: An American tragedy

After learning her mother took out $200,000 of debt in her name, Kristen Collier felt betrayed. Her new book traces how it pushed her to expose unscrupulous lenders who upend the lives of millions ...