by Philippe Melin | Apr 11, 2017 | Government Relations
Midwestern states of Illinois, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota are all among the top half of states in the country with high student-loan indebtedness, according to a study published in 2016 by WalletHub. One Minnesota State Senator Jeffrey...
by Tatum Pugh | Oct 21, 2020 | Differentiation, Employee Engagement
It is unsurprising that the total student loan debt in the U.S. has continued to climb in 2020, with people from marginalized groups typically taking on more student loan debt than other borrowers. Top employers across North America are adopting Student Loan...
by David Aronson | Jan 21, 2016 | Insights
Need to increase applicant volume or improve quality of new hires? Thinking about readying your hiring team to begin hiring the 2016 additions to your salesforce? We posted 5 Quick Tips for Attracting Talent earlier this week and follow now with five more. #6 Track...
by Alifya Valiji | Jun 20, 2016 | Government Relations, Press Room
The staggering $1.3 trillion national student loan debt crisis is gaining momentum in national, state, and local politics alike. Many states are already in the process of reviewing prospective programs that will ease the burden on recent graduates in hopes that its...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 27, 2018 | Insights, Student Loan Repayment
The original version of this post was published on the Members Development Company (MDC) blog by Sarah Lietz, Vice President of Owner Engagement at MDC. You can view the original post here. As more Americans flock to colleges and universities against a backdrop of...
by Tatum Pugh | Sep 29, 2020 | In the Kitchen
Our company’s name is an homage to college grads everywhere, since so many eked by on peanut butter in an effort to save and pay for their college education. Now, those college grads are putting their degrees to work, and many are cooking at home more due to the...
by Tatum Pugh | Jul 18, 2019 | Finding Talent, Student Loan Assistance, Student Loan Repayment
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has announced the results of its 2019 Employee Benefits Study1, which assessed the prevalence of more than 250 benefits through survey responses from thousands of employers. One clear takeaway: more and more employers...
by Joe Kwasniewski | Sep 8, 2023 | Benefits, Decisions, Differentiation, Employee Benefits, Employee Engagement, Financial Wellbeing, Student Loan Assistance, Student Loan Repayment
Loan forgiveness through government programs has, and always will remain a hot topic in the media. Specifically, Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF). This program is handled by the the department of education and borrowers may only apply at studentaid.gov. Once...
by David Aronson | Feb 12, 2019 | Government Relations
Over the past few days in Washington, D.C., a bi-partisan group comprising 20 percent of the members of the U.S. Congress introduced the Employer Participation in Repayment Act. If passed, the legislation will save companies approximately 10 percent of the cost of...
by Tatum Pugh | Jun 9, 2020 | Financial Wellbeing
Peanut Butter recently entered a partnership with PeopleStrategy, a full-service brokerage and provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human resource (HR) solutions, to help introduce Student Loan Assistance programs to PeopleStrategy’s client employers. Employers...
