Dan Kitwood | Getty Images When Michael Bloch’s wife graduated from law school with more than $300,000 in student loans, the couple sat down to come up with a plan. After reading blogs and articles, drafting spreadsheets and consulting a financial advisor, they still didn’t have an answer. “We really struggled with what is the
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Laura | Twenty20 There’s good news for the many people who are in college and working too: they’re likely to pick up a larger paycheck after graduation than their peers who didn’t work. That’s the finding from a new study published by the Education and Employment Research Center at the Rutgers School of Management and
A worker wraps cargo in plastic before it is loaded into a shipping container at the Port of Veracruz in Veracruz, Mexico. Susana Gonzalez | Bloomberg | Getty Images Main street groups are sounding off on President Donald Trump’s latest round of tariff proposals — this time levied on goods imported from Mexico. Last week
In 2008, Jason Urichich was at a crossroads. He lost his home and landscaping business in Youngstown, Ohio, and decided it was time for a change. He decided to pursue a six-month program at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Michigan for wind turbine repair. “I was really interested in the small turbines, and at home
Sandra Payne, owner of Denver Concrete Vibrator. CNBC Sandra Payne said she held out for as long as possible before raising her prices. The owner of Denver Concrete Vibrator, which manufactures equipment that strengthens and settles concrete for infrastructure projects, said tariffs finally took a toll on her business. Raising prices modestly became necessary to