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Financial Planning

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Student Loans: Will Interest Rates Double?

    The Voice recently reported that the interest rates on federally backed Stafford loans will double July 1 -- from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent -- unless Congress gets its shit together. Well, it looks like some legislators in the House are trying to prevent this increase -- by cutting funding to hea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Student Loans: Yes, There's Even More Bad News

    Hey, college students! If you weren't already bummed that 53 percent of you will likely face joblessness or underemployment upon graduation, or that university is a big waste of time and money, we have even more bad news for you. Unless Congress gets its shit together -- which it probably won't b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2012

    Obama, Schumer and the Student Loan Armaggedon

    Over 7 million students receive some sort of subsidized student loan from the U.S. federal government. That is a ton of debt and it's getting larger every year: eclipsing credit cards and car loans, the figure right now stands at around $870 billion nationally. And, on July 1st, it could double ... More >>

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    Obama to Grad Students: Pay Up

    To save student-loan programs, the White House has saddled master's and Ph.D. candidates with added debt.

  • News

    April 4, 2012

    Will Student Defaults on Loans Bring Down the U.S. Economy?

    Dawn of the debt

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    John Liu, With the New School, Proposes Pension Plan to Address Retirement Crisis

    ​City Comptroller John Liu, staying focused on official business and not his ongoing campaign finance controversy, unveiled a new pension plan this morning designed to target what he says is a growing retirement crisis in New York City. Here's the problem, according to Liu, an expected 2013 mayo ... More >>

  • News

    January 4, 2012

    Education Supplement: Bursting the Tuition Bubble

    The soaring cost of college has multiple causes and no easy solution

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

    NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Obama in NYC With Al Sharpton: Student Loans Suck

    ​Amid desperate budget negotiations and a looming government shutdown, President Barack Obama came to New York City last night to speak at the twentieth-anniversary party for Al Sharpton's National Action Network. At the gala, Obama focused on the issue of education inequality, but only after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Smart Money, Huh? American Student-Loan Debt Now Greater Than American Credit Card Debt

    ​Hey, creditors, leave those kids alone! All along, it turns out, they were just another brick in the massive wall of student-loan debt Americans have now acquired which -- fun fact! -- has now surpassed American credit card debt, reports to the Wall Street Journal. Which is how much, exactly? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    MTA Meets the People, Before Deciding on New Reasons to Hate Them.

    ​You think your morning commute sucked? Imagine taking the subway to go talk to the MTA this morning.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    WSJ's New Union Contract: Wage Freeze to July 2011!

    ​As the Wall Street Journal hurries to ready Project Amsterdam, Rupert Murdoch's bid to rock the New York Times dead with a big, splashy color metropolitan section before he kicks the bucket, staffers at the Journal are burning the midnight oil. Which sucks, because they just got their new uni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Madoff's CFO Pleads Guilty; Faces 125 Years

    Bernie Madoff's longtime finance chief pled guilty in federal court this afternoon to helping his boss carry out a $65 million dollar Ponzi scheme. The accountant, Frank DiPascali, had been employed at Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities for more than three decades. He was responsible for manag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Financial Aid Update: Mostly, More Money for Students

    The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    American kids' college plans face auto-destruct

    The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Up is Dow; Dow is up

    The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2008

    Signs of the Great Depression

    The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2007

    A Loan and Afraid

    The stimulus bill President Obama signed into law last month has many ambitious goals, such as putting millions of Americans to work and saving the economy. One thing Obama accomplished immediately, though, was to render swaths of a story (written by me) in the Voice's January 20 Education Supplemen ... More >>

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

    Student Loan Xploited

    Columbia reels after stock allegations.

  • Art

    April 3, 2007

    Get Into Debt Fast: Tips for Last-Minute Student Loans

    Columbia reels after stock allegations.

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2006

    Yvette Clarke: How Do You Like Her Now?

    Columbia reels after stock allegations.

  • News

    January 31, 2006

    John Boehner: Yet Another Lobbying Slut?

    The new House Majority Leader is not quite the 'reformer' he claims

  • News

    January 10, 2006

    Shady Sallie

    An inside look at what Bush has done to your student loan

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2005

    Pensions: Why All You Whipper-Snappers Are Walking to Work

    An inside look at what Bush has done to your student loan

  • News

    December 20, 2005

    Sick Transit

    The NYC subway-bus strike and the slow death of the American pension system

  • News

    November 29, 2005

    Bush's Speech Today Ignores Cold Winter

    Touting more tax cuts, President ignores bitter situation for most Americans

  • News

    November 8, 2005

    Robin Hoods

    Student activists trying to take from banks, give to the needy with the National Tuition Endowment

  • News

    November 1, 2005

    Uncle Sam vs. James Lockhart

    Supreme Court hears appeal of elderly, sick man dunned for student loans

  • News

    August 9, 2005

    Loan Wolf

    House bill makes largest cuts ever in student aid

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2005

    Morning Report 7/31/05
    Missed Connections

    House bill makes largest cuts ever in student aid

  • NYC Life

    June 21, 2005

    Johnny Comes Marching Home to Loans

    Think joining the army will clear your student debt? Better check the fine print.

  • News

    April 5, 2005

    Bush Warms Up to Bill

    Ex-president now a social security blanket for the current president

  • News

    March 29, 2005

    Greed Aid

    Big banks do billions in student loans—and that means less money for you

  • News

    February 15, 2005

    Borrow More Now! Pay More Later!

    Bush's big plan for sticking it to us again

  • News

    February 1, 2005

    Bush's Mandate From Above

    Bush's big plan for sticking it to us again

  • News

    February 1, 2005

    From Security to Risk in One Easy Bush Plan

    President trades American promise for a Wall Street gamble

  • News

    December 14, 2004

    I, Breadwinner?

    Your dad had a job, a wife, a house. You've got loans and fear of commitment. Hello, manhood.

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    But Boot Camp Is Still Free

    Bush, Congress quietly slash key grants for college

  • News

    October 26, 2004

    Your Mi$ery I$ Their Profit

    Up to your ear$ in $tudent loan$? That'$ good new$ for the bond trader$

  • News

    March 9, 2004

    The Ambition Tax

    Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2004

    The Student Loan Blues

    Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

  • Specials

    March 5, 2002

    Letters

    Why America's young are being crushed by debt—and why no one seems to care

  • News

    February 19, 2002

    What’s Wrong With 401(k)'s?

    Brokers Get Rich. The Rich Get Tax Breaks. And the Little Guy Gets No Pension.

  • Specials

    February 19, 2002

    Letters

    Brokers Get Rich. The Rich Get Tax Breaks. And the Little Guy Gets No Pension.

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    Nation

    Brokers Get Rich. The Rich Get Tax Breaks. And the Little Guy Gets No Pension.

  • News

    February 5, 2002

    Nation

    Brokers Get Rich. The Rich Get Tax Breaks. And the Little Guy Gets No Pension.

  • News

    January 22, 2002

    Enron Adds Insult to Injury

    Energy Trader Deducts 401(k) From Severance Checks

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Shrub's First Big Crisis

    Retirement Funds Melt as Wall Street Stumbles

  • News

    August 3, 1999

    High Crimes

    Retirement Funds Melt as Wall Street Stumbles

  • News

    April 13, 1999

    No Exit

    Feds break out the hired guns to nab student-loan jumpers

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