Tag: Debt
Treasury sees 2018 borrowing needs surging to $1.34T
NEW YORK - The U.S. Treasury Department said government borrowing this year will more than double from 2017 to $1.34 trillion as the Trump administration...
Will 2018 be the year Rhode Island voters take a stand...
“Embarrassing,” is how R.I. Department of Education Commissioner Ken Wagner described the state of local public elementary, middle and high schools.
“When I visit a...
U.S. credit scores hit new high while household debt skyrockets
NEW YORK - Almost a decade after the average FICO score hit a low of 686 in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the number...
Time to help student debtors
For decades, the U.S. system of higher education has operated on a unique premise: To make college affordable for a broad swathe of Americans,...
Paying for badly needed school upgrades now will limit future borrowing....
Trinity Briceno, a senior at Cranston East High School, didn’t attend school between December and April.
She was hospitalized in November after students and teachers...
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