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If you had told me thirty years ago, I’d be the State Treasurer of Iowa while my wife Kari and I were simultaneously sending two kids off to college, I would have laughed at you. Today, that’s the case for us, and I’m thankful we thought ahead by establishing 529 accounts for our kids. Even though setting them up didn’t answer the question of what my kids were going to do in ...

Congratulations to the parents with students graduating in the coming weeks and months. It’s an exciting time.

I graduated from high school thirty years ago. Upon graduation, I received congratulatory cards with money to help me buy books and maybe the occasional pizza. It mattered to me then, and still matters today, that every dollar I received in my graduation c...