Forty-two million Americans have a student loan. Altogether, that amounts to $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. The U.S. Department of Education oversees those loans. So, what happens if the ...

Newly adjusted figures reveal the average total household debt stands at approximately $147,919 nationwide. However, debt ...

The Trump administration is gearing up for large changes to the Department of Education, which oversees a $1.6 trillion ...

Experian examined representative and anonymized credit data through Q3 2024 to identify trends within average and total debt ...

Amaiya Camillo will have to spend "well over $900 monthly" to pay off her debt, which she could have lingering over her until 2032.

Public and private student loans are consolidated differently. A financial planner says to keep these tips in mind.

This paper uses administrative credit bureau data to study the distributional, consumption, borrowing, and employment effects of the largest event of student loan forgiveness in history. Beginning in ...