New Trends Affect Employees Everywhere! Will Impact Their Lives for Decades
Uninformed Employees Make Costly Mistakes
Employees make costly college mistakes every day, as illustrated by the latest new trends and statistics below … and they’re bringing these problems to the workplace. They’re depleting their retirement savings, incurring debt at all income and age levels, and spending dozens of hours on the job trying to navigate the complex college planning process.
LFE’s popular new College Video Library was designed to avoid these college-related problems and provide the missing educational component in Financial Wellness Programs today.
Help Your Employees Avoid these Costly Mistakes!
- Employees want Financial Wellness solutions more than PTO (paid time off) – 2022 Betterment Study
- Employees spend 25% of their workday worrying about money – 2022 SoFi Study
- Financial stress costs employers $4.7 Billion per week – 2022 BenefitsPro
- ollege was supposed to close the wealth gap for black Americans: The opposite happened! – The Wall Street Journal
- Private student loan debt now averages $54,921 per borrower – Educationdata.org
- The number of student loan borrowers over age 50 have increased by 512% in the past 14 years – The New Yorker, July 2022
- Those 60 & older are the fastest growing age group for student loan debt – Department of Education 2022
- 72% of parents state final PLUS loan balance was higher than expected ($103 Billion) – Fidelity Study
- After 10 years, Parent PLUS borrowers owe 55% of their initial balance … and after 20 years, they still owe an astonishing 38%! – 2022 Century Foundation Report
- Amount of student loan debt held by those 60 & older grew 33% in one year! – Fidelity
- More than 50% of grads from 33% of colleges earn LESS than high school graduates
– 2022 Georgetown University Study - The ‘College Disconnect’: 53% of college graduates do not apply for entry-level jobs in their field because they feel unqualified; 42% feel they don’t have the skills employers want – 2022 Harvard Business Review
- Students are training for jobs that no longer exist – NBC News
- Last year, 40% of incoming Freshmen declared a major in one of the STEM fields, yet most are unaware the current STEM drop-out rates can be as high as 50% – Numerous 2022 Studies (Harvard, USC, White House Report, etc.)
- 60% of students take 6 years or more to complete a 4-year degree – 2022 Department of Education
- 8,400 Bachelor degrees have a negative ROI – 2022 Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity
- 64% of students run out of money every semester – Edvisors
- Money is the top reason students drop out of college – 2022 University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) Study
- Students without a College Plan spend up to 3.5 times more for college – Sallie Mae