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ARTICLE TITLE: Are you ready to pay for fall tuition? How to shop for student loans
(BPT) - Parents, important tuition deadlines are quickly approaching! Are you and your college student prepared to make your first tuition payment? If you have a financial gap, now is the time to make money moves and secure funds to pay for your student's higher education.
How parents are paying for college
While parents aren't required to help pay for their child's college education, many do. According to College Ave's 2025 Parent Survey, nearly all parents (94%) currently help or plan to help their children pay for college. However, among all parents surveyed, 77% reported that paying for college is stressful and 71% were surprised by the high cost.
There are many financial sources parents use to pay for their children's college tuition. The parent survey found that the top three ways parents help or plan to help pay for college are through regular income and savings (67%), grants and scholarships (...
(BPT) - No matter your stage in life's journey, it's never too early or late to make financial plans. For military families especially, planning helps you withstand major transitions and gives you confidence about the future. From your first Permanent Change of Station (PCS) to deployment and separation, you'll have many decisions to make and high-priority items on your to-do list, including managing your finances.
Financial Planning Month is the perfect time to work on setting goals for your financial future. Here are tips to get you started.
Begin with the basics: Savings
Developing a savings plan is a great place to start. Even when you're starting out in your career, developing the habit of setting money aside from each paycheck can help you build an emergency fund for unexpected events. One approach is to open a separate savings account for that purpose and have a small portion of each paycheck automatically deposited into that account, so you don't even have to think about it....
How Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Families and Businesses
(StatePoint) The United States is one of the only countries in the world that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave to workers, leaving millions of babies without the care they need in their earliest months of life.
Paid leave is associated with higher breastfeeding rates, regularly attended well-child visits with pediatricians, and other key markers of short- and long-term health for young children and adults. Plus, early relationships with parents and caregivers, specifically in the first three years of life, shape a child’s brain development, laying the foundation for lifelong learning, health and well-being.
With less than a third of people in the United States having access to paid family and medical leave, many families are left without financial security during a critical time for child development. Access to paid family and medical leave is lowest among workers with the greatest needs, including...
3 Ways to Become Indispensable to Your Workplace
(StatePoint) In today’s employment landscape, which is characterized by technological disruption, protecting your career against restructuring efforts and downsizing is essential. Here are three ways to become indispensable to your company:
Be a Leader
Doing the bare minimum is a fast track for fading into the woodwork. Instead, become someone that your colleagues, supervisors and supervisees trust, respect, and look to for insight. Make a point of having a broad understanding of your department and company’s overarching goals and priorities so that when you speak up in meetings, you’re doing so from an informed, holistic standpoint. Identify processes that need fine-tuning and share ideas for implementing them. Showcase your ability to lead by volunteering to oversee high-visibility projects and by becoming a mentor to interns and new staffers.
Get the Right Certification
In many industries, acquiring the right certification can impact...
Small Business Owners Remain Confident Despite Trade Challenges
(StatePoint) Optimism for the future of the U.S. economy and business prospects is at an all-time high, according to a new survey of small and mid-size business owners.
Just one year ago in PNC’s Economic Outlook survey, a record 56% of respondents – which include business owners or financial decision makers at more than 500 small to mid-size businesses nationwide – reported optimism for the future of the U.S. economy. That number jumped to 58% in the latest survey, with optimism for business prospects climbing to 84%.
In contrast, is a declining number of respondents who say they expect demand or profits to increase in the next six months. Additionally, 46% of business owners say they are “extremely concerned” about inflation in the coming months, with one-third also reporting they are “extremely concerned” about the risk from higher tariffs and supplier prices.
Fears around prices
The top challenge business owners are...