Broke Millennial’s Guide to Investing If You Have Student Loans

Should you pay off your loans faster or start putting money in the market?

Erin Lowry
Forge
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7 min readApr 2, 2019

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Whether to invest while you’re paying off student loans is a fiercely debated topic in the personal finance world. It’s about half a step below the “should you be allowed to splurge on nonessentials when you have debt” debate. (I vote…

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Erin Lowry
Forge
Writer for

Writer, speaker, and author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together and Broke Millennial Takes On Investing.