Tag: young adults
A recent Brookings Institution report confirms for the first time how severely uninformed many college freshman are about the impact of the debts they’re taking on to fund their education. This isn’t entirely surprising. But with tuitions continually rising and students now often forced to borrow the equivalent of a house down payment by t…
Cuts in public pensions taking place around the country could reduce the ability of state and local governments to recruit and retain top-quality workers, according to new findings by the Center for Retirement Research, which sponsors this blog. Economists have long argued that pensions and worker quality are related. Pensions, like paychecks, are a form…
