We started our family young and quickly realized the importance of planning for our child's future. Despite more immediate financial pressures, we prioritize our child's 529 savings plan. We are now ...

I love my niece, but she is 18 and afraid of her own shadow. She is academically brilliant, but way behind her peers when it comes to independence. Her parents basically smothered her socially and ...

Leo Robadey left his tech job to pursue a happier life and find his new purpose. Inspired by Arthur Brooks, Robadey plans to walk the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. Robadey took steps to financially ...

Concerned parents of incoming college freshmen are adding the life-saving nasal spray to back-to-school lists this year — along with condoms, Plan B and more modern must-haves that might have been ...

College is more expensive than ever, especially with federal cuts to student loan options. If you own your home, you may be considering using your home equity to fund your child's education. Instead ...

Question: I am a 45 year-old single mom with emergency savings and retirement savings and just my car and home in outstanding debts. I expect to receive an inheritance of $100,000 in the near future.

If there’s anything I’ve figured out over the last few years, it’s that life doesn’t always go as planned. I had a vision of how my life should unfold — how the world told me it should go. And so, ...

F. Dubois Bowman was on a soccer field in Michigan two months ago, walking the sideline during his daughter’s match, when he learned he would be the next president of his alma mater, Morehouse College ...

This past year, I finally threw away a glossy Yale admissions booklet that had been collecting dust on my bookshelf for four years. I didn’t even realize, until recently, why I had placed it there in ...