FAU program helps first-generation students graduate debt-free

First-generation college students face many unique challenges when trying to navigate their collegiate experience.Florida Atlantic University is making that process much easier for some of them with its Kelly/Strul Emerging Scholars Program.Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WPBF 25It provides financial, academic, and social support to first-generation college students.When Dodlee Mosilme graduated from…

Farmer Who Challenged Debt-Relief Program Fails in Fee Appeal

A Tennessee man isn’t entitled to legal fees for challenging as discriminatory a federal debt-relief program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers that was repealed while his case played out, an appeals court said Wednesday. Although Robert Holman obtained a preliminary injunction before Congress repealed the program, he doesn’t qualify as a prevailing party entitled…

Farmer Who Challenged Debt-Relief Program Fails in Fee Appeal

A Tennessee man isn’t entitled to legal fees for challenging as discriminatory a federal debt-relief program for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers that was repealed while his case played out, an appeals court said Wednesday. Although Robert Holman obtained a preliminary injunction before Congress repealed the program, he doesn’t qualify as a prevailing party entitled…

Retail Sales Get No Help From Surging Credit Card Debt

Retail sales unexpectedly stalled at the end of the year, raising questions about the strength of the American consumer. In the past years, household consumption has been a vital engine of growth. Even as inflation squeezed budgets and confidence surveys turned gloomy, people kept spending. That’s precisely why the latest data felt different. Not a…