MMI Offers a Path to Becoming Debt-Free in 2025: Survey

STAFFORD, Texas, Dec. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Money Management International (MMI), a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Americans overcome financial challenges, challenges consumers to make 2025 the year they take control of their finances and work towards being debt-free. With the holiday season behind us and financial challenges such as inflation and rising…

Australian student loan reforms likely to be retrospective

Legislation to overhaul Australia’s student loans scheme is likely to be introduced retrospectively, with the government facing a challenging timetable to implement its changes. Times Higher Education understands that the government intends to introduce legislation giving effect to the two major components of the reforms – new repayment arrangements, and a 20 per cent debt wipe-down – simultaneously, and possibly in the same bill. Prime…

Monday Starter: Advocates urge Biden to support debt relief measure

More than 60 Catholic groups and individuals — including sister-supported organizations and congregations — have signed a letter urging President Joseph Biden to support an initiative promoting debt relief for low- and middle-income countries. Biden leaves office Jan. 20. The letter — whose signatories include the Sisters of Mercy; the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns; Pax Christi…