Melissa Korn
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822 appearances
14 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2017
last heard Sep 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Paying for College: When Should Families Have ‘The Talk’? · 25 Apr 2022
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could be, and then mapping out, you know, spreadsheets are your friend here, looking through your bank accounts, looking through all of the investment accounts, the 529, projecting out earnings for the next couple of years if the kid has a part-time job.
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You have to do a lot of math here to figure out what the appropriate budget is.
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But hoping is not a good way to budget for college.
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There can absolutely and should absolutely be follow-up conversations.
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This is a conversation that you start, ideally, pretty early into high school.
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You continue to have as the actual college decision is being made.
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You continue to have, as the student goes through school,
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You know, it might inspire them to try to graduate early, save a semester's worth of expenses if they're on the hook for it or if they understand what a burden it is for the parent.
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And continuing to have that discussion if they're struggling in school and want to switch majors for a fourth time.
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Okay, well, how much time does that add?
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What does that mean for the money?
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What majors make sense?
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You know, these are conversations that can be happening throughout the college experience and also even after, right?
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Discussing, making sure that they have a plan for how to pay back their loans.
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The role that student debt plays in other parts of adults' lives has changed.
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It just hovers over people as they go into their 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond, and does factor into decisions like
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Can I buy a house?
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Can or should I start a family?
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Is that responsible to do?
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The federal government has that it saved borrowers about $5 billion a month in payments that they would have had to make.
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