University of Utah students are conferred their degrees during commencement in Salt Lake City Thursday, May 2, 2013. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)
Devon Merling
One third of millennials regret going to college, according to a Wells Fargo...
May 23, 2013 12:10 pm
Terry Moore stands outside her condo in American Fork, which she chose to pay off with insurance money after her husband died. Photo taken Monday, April 29, 2013. (Tom Smart, Deseret News)
Michael De Groote
Grace Dunklee Cohen wasn’t...
May 7, 2013 12:07 pm
Connie and Kay Wells in their home in West Valley City, Utah with photographs of their children and grandchildren behind them. (Michael De Groote, Deseret News)
Michael De Groote
The first thing Carmen Wong Ulrich discovered when she wrote...
April 21, 2013 10:53 pm
Courts in Ohio are illegally throwing poor people in jail for being unable to pay their debts, a new report by the Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union says. (Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News)
Mercedes White
Courts in Ohio are...
April 10, 2013 9:48 am
Alysa Kleinman, FamilyShare
What matters most to you? What do you spend your time dreaming about? Fame? Success? Fortune?
(reddit)
Or is it something totally different? Is it family? God? Finding happiness?
Despite how we prioritize our lives,...
March 20, 2013 5:05 am
These three $20 gold coins minted in 1875, 1877 and 1879 (and cashed in St. George at a Zions Bank in 2009) would be worth nothing next to trillion-dollar coins if such coins were ever minted. (Stuart Johnson, Deseret News)
Michael De Groote
Just...
January 7, 2013 10:05 pm
Andy Mohlman
SALT LAKE CITY — Forget Pink Floyd’s enigmatic exploration of “The Dark Side of the Moon” — those who have traveled into the recesses of the dark side of a million dollars will never forget their time as a...
December 24, 2012 3:40 am
The Wall Street Journal recently laid out how U.S. student loan debt rose $42 billion in the third quarter to make a total of $956 billion. (Shutterstock)
Michael De Groote
Education has been tied tightly to the American Dream. Go to college,...
December 4, 2012 11:51 pm
More Americans are worried about their finances as the BankRate.com Financial Security Index fell to 97.1 percent in November, which is the third-lowest result of the year. (shutterstock.com)
Joey Ferguson
More Americans are worried about...
November 26, 2012 6:18 pm
By: Timothy R. Clark
Studies confirm that the average college freshman in America goes to bed around 1 a.m. Why the nocturnal pattern? They didn’t go to bed that late as high school seniors. Why the sudden disregard for a sensible bedtime?
It...
October 1, 2012 9:15 pm