New in Employee Benefits: Paying off Student Debt

It may not have come to the travel industry yet, but it’s an idea worth considering. Accounting giant PwC this week rolled a new kind of employee benefit: it will pay $100 a month toward the student debt of its employees. One in seven recent college grads owes money for student loans, putting a total drag of $1.3 trillion on the U.S. economy and the buying power of Millennials.

–Cheryl Rosen