As anyone in school knows, there are different ways to pay for school. You can qualify for grants or scholarships in order to avoid paying for school yourself. You can pay for school upfront, or you can take out student loans either via your parents or under yourself. For those who take out student loans, you're all too familiar with interest rates and how what you toke out can continue to grow in size over time. And this can leave you with debt for years to come, I know because I myself am at over $100,000 close to the end of my graduate studies due to compounding interest. In fact, student loans account for more U.S. debt than credit cards and auto loans since 2010 (Chiwaya, 2019). Yet there may be a new way to pay for school. Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mark Warner (D-VA), and Chris Coons (D-DE), introduced a new bipartisan bill to set consumer protections for income-sharing agreements, in the hopes that this will be another option for higher-ed consumers (Kr...
A graduate student and registered nurse's account of the economic aspects of nursing and other nursing related topics. Research focus: Nursing Economics, bridging labor and health economics to explain how it affects nurses and how nurses affect the economy.