April 2013
Beginner to intermediate
913 pages
21h 32m
English
A college degree is quickly becoming what a high school diploma once was: the minimum requirement for a decent job and a reasonably prosperous economic future. Some kind of post-secondary education is all but essential these days if you want to even stay in the middle class.
But spiraling college costs and loose lending practices are burdening too many students with far more debt than they can comfortably repay. Students and their parents need to make sure they’re buying an education they can actually afford.
Q: I would like to know how best to use a $100,000 inheritance. I am a stay-at-home mom, age 46. My husband, 42, earns $100,000 a year.
We owe $132,000 on our ...