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Parent student-loan borrowers have to act quickly to keep their affordable monthly payments.President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” spending legislation made sweeping changes to student-loan repayment, and loans that parents take out for their kids, known as parent PLUS, are facing a key deadline.Currently, parents can take out loans equal to…
When Ph.D. student LaShae Rolle felt a pain in her chest, she didn’t think much of it at first.A little soreness made sense: she was working hard in the gym, preparing to bench press nearly 300 pounds for a powerlifting competition.The pain came and went, but then Rolle noticed a…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mila Wagner-Sanchez, a freshman at Stanford Univeristy, who uses Date Drop, a new dating app created by Henry Weng, a Stanford senior. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a 19-year-old freshman at Stanford University. I wasn’t sure what to…
Nursing programs are taking center stage in the public conversation on President Donald Trump’s student-loan repayment overhaul.Public comment on the Department of Education’s proposed student-loan changes has been open for one week, giving anyone the opportunity to submit feedback. Those changes include new income-driven repayment plans, updates to the handling…
By the time Dr. Jill Green finished medical school, she’d racked up seven figures in student debt and had virtually zero assets.”My net worth was negative $1 million,” the family practice and emergency medicine doctor told Business Insider. “Our primary home was our only asset.”Green, who began her career in…
For some, retirement means relaxation. For Jordan Hendrickson, retirement means debt.”I don’t have any retirement savings,” Hendrickson, 54, told Business Insider. “I don’t see any other way than working up until my last day.”Hendrickson received her doctorate in psychology in 2013, bringing her total student-loan balance to about $350,000, including…
My patient set down his knitting sticks, leaned over, and said in Spanish: “Wow. This went by fast.”I thought he meant the movie we were watching. Ciro Guerra’s “El abrazo de la serpiente.” “What do you mean?” I asked, answering in Spanish.”La vida,” he said. “Pasó volando.”He was a patient…
