UK Debt advisers are using behavioural science to try to nudge more people to get help with their money problems. The Money Advice Service, a body set up by the UK government to offer free financial advice, has produced a guide to help its advisers apply the learnings of behavioural science. The tips in the…
Regardless which major they choose, the school attended or the degree obtained, college graduates typically have some amount of student loans they must pay back. According to a 2016 story in U.S. News and World Report, 70 percent of students graduated with student loans and the average graduate held $37,172 in student debt. College debt…
Spotify is negotiating with TPG about the future of the private equity groups investment in the music streaming company, as it prepares to go public as soon as the fourth quarter. The digital music pioneer last year raised $1bn from TPG, Dragoneer and Goldman Sachs, via a convertible debt investment. This debt would convert to…
A 6-year-old in Idaho has been supplying her community with fresh lemonade while helping schools erase their lunch debt. Amiah Van Hill offers free lemonade to people in Hayden, Idaho, and educates them about the many kids who cant afford lunch and ra… Read the full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/6-year-old-starts-lemonade-stand-to-erase-school-districts-lunch-debt_us_59b8096ee4b027c149e2db38
JUST 10 South Australians owe taxpayers almost $2 million in combined university debts, new analysis reveals. The Advertiser can reveal the South Australian most in the red needs to pay back $224,218 equivalent to the cost of about eight four-year nursing or teaching degrees. Education Department figures also show almost 180,000 South Australians have debts…
MORE than 1700 South Australians have successfully taken on Centrelinks automated robo-debt system and been cleared of owing money or had their debts reduced. Nationally, almost 20,000 Centrelink clients who were advised the could owe the Government money due to welfare-overpayments had subsequently had their debts reduced or scapped, figures released in federal Parliament reveal.…
Harvey and Irma havent been the only recent hurricanes to hit the United States. A political storm erupted in Washington as a Republican President cut a deal with Democrats in Congress to extend the US government debt limit for three months. Yet this combination of events may help stabilise a US dollar that has been…
Heres what the McGowan Government should have done to drag this State out of crippling debt and deficit with a sense of purpose and certainty. Forget the tinkering at the edges and the faux tough love we saw last week in the Budget, with a payroll tax increase of up to one percentage point and…
Students helping to take a bite out of medical debt (WEAR) Just one catastrophic illness can leave a family in financial ruins. A couple of bold and savvy teenagers are drawing attention for their efforts to wipe away some of that burden. “I was on YouTube and I was watching a video on John…
One second-grade student wanted to help erase school lunch debt for her fellow students, so she decided to create lemonade stands to raise funds. Amiah Van Hill was inspired to raise funds to help pay off her classmates’ lunch debt back in May after reading about Jeffery Lew. The father of three crowd-funded to cover…