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In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, many college-aged Puerto Ricans are pursuing jobs elsewhere. Others are now deciding to stay.

When more households fail to make payments on their vehicle, it shows too few people are sharing the benefits of an ostensibly healthy economy.

Our best reporting on education inequality—and those working to remedy it.

In director Steve McQueen's new movie, the heist is about much more than money.

But its effect can be positive or negative, depending on the specific type of indebtedness.

Due to the racial wealth gap, black families have far less in savings than whites. The consequences can be far-reaching and often severe.

America’s out-of-date, unfair laws for collecting debts could be dramatically improved by these simple steps.

The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.

Bankers and new accounting rules are emboldening governments to borrow-and-bet their way out of pension problems, a strategy that’s backfired in the past.

It seems certain that the political economy textbooks of the future will include a chapter on the experience of Greece in 2015.

A combination of MOOCs and community-based training sites could result not only in better education for future physicians, but in higher quality, more widely available, and affordable health care for everyone.

A state-by-state analysis of Google searches find high-status goods are of more interest in places with a larger gap between rich and poor.

Graduating university isn't evidence of leadership. Neither is not graduating.

How are university students really faring in this environment of rising costs and diminishing opportunities? How do they feel about the future?

Previous explanations as to the rising cost of higher education—focused on salaries and amenities—haven't placed enough blame on those who are profiting.

In what’s been criticized as a modern-day version of indentured servitude, a new batch of start-ups are giving investors the opportunity to turn people into profit by buying a piece of their future earnings. Could this be a solution to our student debt problem?

Meet Dave Ramsey, the most important personal finance guru in America. Millions of people follow his biblically inspired advice. It goes like this: 1. Purge yourself of debt; 2. Live on cash; 3. Pretend economic trends don't affect you; 4. Blame yourself when they do.

We celebrate education as the answer to almost all of our economic problems. At the same time, we largely ignore the enormous debt many American students are forced to acquire and the great difficulties they face in landing a job that makes it possible for them to pay it off.

Nearly a century ago, during the Great Migration, less-educated individuals were the ones who left home in search of better lives. The opposite is true today, with the educated more mobile than ever before, leaving some places in a spiral of decline.