The Student Debt Bubble Implosion: $1.68 trillion in student loan debt and a big portion is not being paid while COVID-19 is only making it worse
Higher education has always held a space as a beacon of hope for our country. The great equalizer and a platform for hard working Americans to retool and come out with the skills necessary for the jobs of tomorrow. One of the big challenges being faced in higher education of course is the incredibly high […]
The Long Winter: Number of people filing for unemployment insurance hits 36.4 million and unemployment rate at highest level since the Great Depression
The economic situation continues to deteriorate as 36.4 million Americans have now filed for unemployment insurance in the last 8 weeks. This is a daunting number that is down right shocking given that only two months ago, we were near “full employment†and the stock market was near all-time highs. The number of people filing […]
30.3 million Americans have filed for unemployment insurance in the last six weeks. There is also a backlog so numbers would be higher
The unemployment figures that we are seeing are startling. We have now seen 30.3 million people file for unemployment insurance in the last six weeks. These numbers are historic even when comparing to the Great Depression. The notion that we will have a sharp V-shape recovery is simply not going to be the case. While […]