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  • ‘How America Pays for College’ Study Reveals Shifts in Reasons for Attending College

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 23, 2011
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    Students attend college with increasingly practical reasons in mind: better jobs and earning more money, says Sallie Mae’s “How America Pays for College,” a national study of 1,600 college students and parents conducted by Ipsos. Ni...

  • Survey: Nearly Half of Parents Report It's Important to Teach Children About Being Financially Savvy

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 16, 2011
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    The national debt crisis has dominated the headlines over the past weeks and left many people wondering what's next. While complicated and frustrating, one of the silver linings is that it can offer a teachable moment for parents to educate their chi...

  • Survey: Parents Become More Self Reliant in Paying for High Costs of College

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 15, 2011
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    Parents of college bound children are resigning themselves to the reality that the buck stops at their doorstep in funding the ever rising cost of college in an uncertain economic climate. A national survey of parents from across the country and inco...

  • Tips to Take the Stress out of Paying for College

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • August 1, 2011
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    As the search for student loans traditionally reaches its peak about this time of year, Discover Student Loans offers parents and students helpful advice when it comes to finding the right private student loan to pay for college.
    Once parents and st...

  • Parents Get Schooled On Spending

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • July 28, 2011
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    The average family of four plans to spend $800 on back to school purchases this year but two-thirds of U.S. parents (67%) say they will need to make trade-offs to afford these expenses according to the latest American Express Spending & Saving Tr...

  • Majority of Americans Say Student Loan Debt is Too Much

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • July 19, 2011
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    Americans are growing more wary of mounting student loan debt and the value of higher education. According to a new COUNTRY Financial survey, four in five (81 percent) say the expected average level of student loan debt, $29,000*, is too high.
    Conce...

  • Report: Child Born Last Year Will Cost Parents $226K To Raise

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • June 14, 2011
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    A middle-income family may spend $226,920 to raise a child born in 2010 to the age of 18, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said today in a report.The estimate is up 2.1 percent from 2009, according to the study, posted today on the department&rsquo...

  • Teen Childbearing Cost Taxpayers $10.9 Billion in 2008

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • November 30, 2011
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    Teen childbearing in the United States cost taxpayers (federal, state, and local) at least $10.9 billion in 2008, according to an updated analysis released by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.  State costs in 2008 ra...

  • Nearly 60% of Parents Provide Financial Support to Adult Children

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • June 8, 2011
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    This month, young adults across the nation are donning graduation robes and tweaking resumes, while parents ready their Canons and Kleenex. At the podium, guest speakers will motivate and inspire, but they will likely omit one tiny detail: Many of th...

  • Child Support Overpayments: Lawsuit Alleges State Withholds Too Much Money

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • May 10, 2011
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    A class action lawsuit filed on Friday, 6 May 2011, claims Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) over collects child support payments in violation of state statutes and federal regulations. Records indicate in excess of $176 million ha...