The FAFSA is a crucial document for anyone pursuing higher education who wants help paying for college or trade school. And some of that aid is first-come, first-served, so you should move quickly.
Until 2001, you could fully pay for college tuition, room and board with any full-time job in the U.S., according to a Money analysis of federal wage and education data. That's no longer the case.
The Social Security 2100 Act seeks change how the program's cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) work by incorporating an inflation measure called the CPI-E.
The FTC published fewer than 100,000 credit-report complaints for all of 2025 — roughly 1.2 million fewer than the year prior. But the decrease isn't because Americans suddenly reported fewer issues.