personal finance

Learning how to navigate important and often confusing student loan decisions can be difficult. KCUR's Up To Date spoke with two financial advisors to learn helpful tips that can make it more manageable.

Federal student loan payments are resuming this month for about 1.2 million Missourians and Kansans after being paused in 2020. But the landscape has changed in the last three years: Borrowers now have new options for payment plans, and their loans could be held by different entities than the last time they paid.

Installed inside gas stations, liquor stores and smoke shops, cryptocurrency kiosks tend to be placed in Kansas City neighborhoods with larger numbers of Black and Latino residents. Critics say they're a targeted attempt to exploit financially vulnerable people with steep fees for a volatile product.

The military provides career stability, but service members can be relocated any number of times. This often increases the financial strain on service members and their families.

The Kansas City housing market outlook favors sellers and properties are still going quickly, despite inflation.

WeDevelopment Federal Credit Union, which opens this weekend at Linwood Shopping Center, is taking on the mission of increasing financial literacy in communities east of Troost.

14.6% of Missourians are in poverty, making it incredibly difficult for them to build up savings.

The key factors you should consider when deciding whether to pay for a post-secondary education.

The recovering economy needs your money but with prices climbing it may be better to hold onto your cash.

Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act which have some questioning its constitutionality, and our financial experts answer whether now is the time to spend or to save.

How William Volker's money laid the foundation for American conservatism and a look at the pandemic's impacts on retirement plans.

Whether they were on the financial edge before or not, Kansas Citians agree the stimulus payments are a welcome, and needed, relief.