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After the U.S. Supreme Court ended President Joe Biden’s debt cancellation program, advocates for lowering student loan debt say the federal SAVE plan, an updated loan repayment program, could save Texans and other borrowers a lot of money in interest.

Economic concepts can help with financial decisions.

If you're a military spouse preparing to PCS or a veteran who has already exhausted -- or transferred -- your GI Bill benefits, here are 24 companies that help pay for college and some particulars on each program.

Detractors point to bloated bureaucracies, complacency, declining quality, a lack of focus, broken business models and an inability to adapt. Do they have a leg to stand on? In an essay in Bloomberg, Adrian Wooldridge, best known as the a defender of meritocracy, argues that today’s colleges and universities “look a lot like 1970s Detroit”: unfocused, bloated and characterized by complacency, declining quality and a sluggish response to a rapidly shifting environment.

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

As tuition and other post-secondary education costs continue to climb, pay for student workers at many Kentucky public state universities is going up too. But, some students say it’s still not enough to help cover living expenses.

Colby-Sawyer has joined a growing number of small, private colleges in what’s called the tuition reset. Read more at Boston.com.

Colby-Sawyer in New Hampshire has reduced its tuition to $17,500 a year, from about $46,000. But the cut is also a recognition that few pay the list price.

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The financial aid will cover both the tuition and room and board of qualified undergraduate students - which breaks down to about $79,540 altogether.