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Retirement planning took a backseat in many Americans' minds in recent months as more pressing financial matters arose. Things like persistent inflation and the resumption of student loan payments...
Back in physical classrooms, progress stalled. researchers estimate the average student would need an additional 4.1 months of reading instruction and four and a half months of math just to catch up. >> a lot of us hoped the magic bullet was just get kids back in the classroom, but what we are seeing is much like carrying a debt with compounding interest, by failing to remediate and get kids caught back up in previous years we are new seeing the toll from the pandemic is impeding kids' ability and progress in the current year. >> although the study takes a non-partisan tone, republicans are po...
With compounding interest. by failing to remediate and get kids caught back up in previous years we're now seeing that the toll from the pandemic is impeding kids' ability and progress in the current year. >> although the study takes a nonpartisan tone, republicans are pointing fingers at teachers unions which helped shape pandemic policy. the two leading unions contributed more than $66 million to democratic or liberal causes in 2020. and increased democrats' share of their political contributions from 97.8% that year to 99.6% in 2022, according to the independent watchdog open secrets. >> ex...
But when she told me about it, i just encouraged her. yes, okay, great. what do you need to do? - what marcella's daughter needed to do was take out a $46,000 loan. - i'm trying to work as hard as i can. because then after she finishes, it's gonna be over $200,000. - wait a minute. marcella started out with a $46,000 loan and now it's $200,000? - most of my salary is going into paying off my student loans right now. but even with that, after four years of residency, i'm gonna basically be in $50,000 more debt. - i've talked to people where they say, i've been paying my student loans for years....
While most loans make you pay a small amount of interest, compounding interest charges you interest on interest, making your balance grow exponentially and quickly get out of control. - if i were the only person with student debt, i may say, you know, gosh, i really messed up here. but then when it gets to, like, 45 million people, you're like, okay, maybe this is systemic. maybe this isn't just a couple of people who made bad decisions. maybe this is actually an orchestrated scam. - i'm convinced that the system was rigged to create the very crisis that we're in today. - that's when i learned...