At a time when America is already battling a quiet, crippling credit crisis, recent data indicates there are still paramount struggles in the way of fiscal freedom. In honor of Financial Literacy ...

While headlines focus on inflation, market instability, and job growth, another crisis has been quietly unfolding: student loan debt. As of April 2025, roughly 5.8 million federal student loan ...

Current outstanding student loan debt in the United States is now over $1.7 trillion. An estimated 43 million American adults ...

The soaring cost of living and financial pressures on families have forced six in 10 parents into debt to provide for their children. That’s according to a survey of 2,000 parents of children aged ...

Many Americans have grown numb to headlines about trillion-dollar deficits and a national debt that will destroy the U.S. economy. It has become routine to hear that Washington has added yet another ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. You actually had to have this stuff in reserve to be a "national bank" in the United States. A one-hundred dollar Civil War ...

Okay, I was tempted to sneak “Kardashians” into this week’s email subject line to perk up interest. I know, I know. Debt. But let me explain why I think it’s an important issue, particularly as talk ...

We all have so much to worry about these days: international, national, local and familial. As my summer good deed, I’m going to take one off your plate: the national debt. You can ignore it. Did that ...

Khallilah Beecham-Watkins is a first-generation student now $80,000 in debt. Khallilah Beecham-Watkins and her family celebrated when she became the first person in her family to graduate from college ...