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300 protesters arrested at Columbia University and City College of New York
There has been a wave of protests at several universities across the country in recent weeks over t…
Alexandra Bacon
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I took over my family's collapsing business at 27, made it profitable, and managed to sell it to a private equity group. Here are the 5 principles I followed.
Lauri Union became CEO of her family's multi-state business at 27, and had to learn how to rebuild …
Matthew Loh
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Gig work is getting less profitable
A growing number of Americans are working in the gig economy. Some will find it disappointing.
Jacob Zinkula,Noah Sheidlower
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I skipped college and now make $600,000 a year online. I'm the first person in my family to purchase my own home.
Oliur Rahman asked his parents for one year to prove he could make money on his own instead of goin…
Ellen Nguyen
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I made $1.4 million in profit last year as an Airbnb Superhost working just 2 hours a week. Here's how I set up and grew my business.
Syed Lateef left his finance job and opened a short-term rental company in 2017. Last year, he made…
Perri Ormont Blumberg
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'Trauma entrepreneurs' are accused of using tragedy to make a profit – here's how after a recent college shooting
The questionable marketers were dubbed "trauma entrepreneurs" by the Michigan State University comm…
Jordan Hart
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An athletic scholarship and NIL deals aren't going to pay for your kid's college tuition. Here are the odds they're up against.
Athletic scholarships and NIL deals help athletes pay for college and make money but the odds of fo…
Jacob Zinkula
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Companies vowed to hire more workers without college degrees. But a study says they're not following through.
Bank of America and Lockheed Martin removed degree requirements from job listings, but didn't chang…
Geoff Weiss
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Biden's Education Department just wiped out $5.8 billion in student debt for all remaining borrowers defrauded by Corinthian Colleges
This is long-awaited student-debt relief for students defrauded by Corinthian College, and the late…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Thousands of defrauded student-loan borrowers have waited 'three presidential administrations' for debt forgiveness, 16 lawmakers say
Elizabeth Warren was among Democrats urging Biden to "make good on its promise to defrauded borrowe…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Millions of student-loan borrowers are being driven toward 'dangerous' debt for a for-profit education, investigation finds
Lightly-regulated loan options, like Buy Now Pay Later, could leave borrowers with massive student …
Ayelet Sheffey
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The strange, twisted logic behind the sky-high cost of college
You got an expensive college degree to get a good job. But what if your good job is what made your …
James S. Murphy
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A college student raked in a $110 million profit on Bed Bath & Beyond after investing $25 million in the meme stock
Jake Freeman, the 20-year-old chief of Freeman Capital Management, made over four times his money i…
Theron Mohamed
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Student-loan borrowers 'shouldn't have to act as a labor economist' to prove a college misled them on job prospects and loaded them up with debt, Biden's Education Department says
For student-loan borrowers, proving they were defrauded by a school is difficult and can prevent de…
Ayelet Sheffey
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America's biggest private-equity firms are screwing over college students
America's private equity giants are turning student housing into a huge industry. But as rents reac…
James Rodriguez
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Can college sports teams unionize? We're about to find out.
Some college athletes, like the Dartmouth men's basketball team, want to form a union. An upcoming …
Katie Hawkinson
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Canceling student debt for millions of borrowers 'cheated by for-profit colleges' isn't enough, Biden's Education Department says — it's time for the top executives to pay up
The executives of for-profit colleges that caused borrowers' student debt to spiral need to be held…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Taxpayers won't have to foot the bill when colleges shut down anymore — but neither will the schools' top executives, Biden's Education Department says
When a school closes, like ITT Tech in 2016, students have debt but no degree. In the past, taxpaye…
Ayelet Sheffey
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How private lenders have left millions of college students with no hope for the future
How the booming market for private loans saddled millions of students with $136 billion in debt tha…
Ayelet Sheffey
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I was drowning in student-loan debt, so I bought a house and flipped it. I used the profit to pay off my loans.
When his teaching job didn't pay the bills, he bought a house and sold it three years later. The mo…