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Deep Dive: Paper Checks: The Bane Of Student Disbursements?
Disbursements // February 14, 2020

U.S. college students must stay on top of numerous bills — including healthcare, housing, textbooks and tuition — so they can fully focus on their educational goals. Many depend on scholarships, loans or grants to pay these bills, and late disbursements of such payments can...

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Consumers Increasingly Expect Growth in Public Assistance Programs

May 28, 2024
Consumers are more likely to expect an expansion of public assistance programs than they were a year ago. Among the programs about which they have increased optimism are federal student aid, student debt forgiveness, federal welfare programs, unemployment benefits and the federal minimum wage, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data […]