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- College Students and Debt
- Political Issues Affecting Students
- College Preparation and Planning for Higher Education
- Graduation
- How To
- Achieving Your Goals
- Insurance
- Saving and Investing
- Credit
- Credit Scores
- Financial Aid & Student Loans
- Relationships and Money
- Your Life. Your Money.
- Money Matters Newsletter Archives
The average American household spends $17,000 each year on basic living expenses such as food, clothing, housewares, and personal care. Most never think about turning those dollars into positive actions: eating organic and locally-grown food, purchasing Fair Trade goods, and using green products to offset our environmental impact.
That's what buying green is all about. It is about sustaining our planet and its resources to create a better, cleaner, and sustainable future for generations to come. This Student Money Management Center is dedicated to helping students learn how to embrace living green in the green.
College Students and Debt
- Huge college loans eating up salaries
- Changes in student loan programs at the center of federal budget fight
- Student suffocate under tens of thousands in loans
- American Debt: Escaping the Credit-Card Quagmire (pdf)
- College Costs and Sallie Mae, Rising Hand in Hand (pdf)
- College Costs are Stacking Up (pdf)
- Study Tracks Student Use of Credit Cards (pdf)
- Credit debt in college: Who's Accountable?
- 2 of 3 college grads go into debt (pdf)
- Borrowing to make ends meet (pdf)
- College Credit is Failing Student Who Need it Most (pdf)
- College 101 - Planning for Spring Break (pdf)
- Credit card debt on college campuses - causes, consequences, and solutions (pdf)
- Manage Your Money (pdf)
- Students Suffocate under tens of thousands in loans (pdf)
- The Dark Secrets of Debt (pdf)
- The Dollars and Cents of Study Abroad (pdf)
- Consolidating Student Loans Not Always Best Option (pdf)
Political Issues Affecting Students
- Education Secretary takes action to keep direct loans competitive
- Playing the Housing Slump (pdf)
- Denton electric rates to rise April 1 (pdf)
- How the Tax Burden has Changed since 1960
College Preparation and Planning for Higher Education
- Getting Out of Debt
- Financial Advice for New Graduates (pdf)
- Thinking Ahead to Prevent Laptop Theft (pdf)
Graduation
- Student Article Operation Graduation (pdf)
- Happy Graduation... Now what do you do about your finances (pdf)
- Employers struggle to find skilled workers
How To
- How to Be a Distant Learner (pdf)
- How to Buy a Condominium (pdf)
- How to Buy a New Car (pdf)
- How to Capitalize on your Home Equity (pdf)
- How to Choose an In-Demand Career (pdf)
- How to Choose the Best Mortgage Rate (pdf)
- How to Choose the Right Flooring (pdf)
- How to Enroll in College (pdf)
- How to Furnish Your First Apartment (pdf)
- How to Get Out of Debt (pdf)
- How to Organize Your Garage (pdf)
- How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft (pdf)
- How To Shop for Groceries (pdf)
- How to Shop Online (pdf)
- How to Avoid Foreclosure (pdf)
- How to Ditch the Credit Card debt (pdf)
- How to Find a Roommate (pdf)
- How to Have a Smooth Move (pdf)
- How to Leverage Your Financial Aid (pdf)
- How to Tackle Your Debt in Five Simple Steps (pdf)
Achieving Your Goals
- Achieving Your Financial Goals
- Planning to Achieve Your Financial Objectives
- Finding your financial utopia (pdf)
Insurance
- Auto Insurance (pdf)
- Home Insurance (pdf)
- Life Insurance (pdf)
- 6 Reasons to Avoid Private Mortgage Insurance (pdf)
Saving and Investing
- Make Your Emergency Savings Automatic (pdf)
- 5 Ways to save 2500 dollars in 20 minutes (pdf)
- 12 Saving Tips for the Holidays (pdf)
- 20 Investing Tips (pdf)
- 30 Minute Investing Start-Up Kit (pdf)
- 45 Easy Ways to Economize (pdf)
- Lessons from Market Mayhem
Credit
- Lower Credit-Card Limits Hit Holiday Shopping
- How to Avoid Credit Card Pitfalls
- Seven Steps to Good Credit (pdf)
- New law Allows Texans to Freeze Credit Reports (pdf)
- Students Beware Credit's Temptation (pdf)
- Don't fall for FreeCreditReport.Com (pdf)
- Coping with Cash and Credit (pdf)
- Credit Cards 101 (pdf)
- Credit Cards Ensnare Naive College Freshman (pdf)
- Debit or Credit - Here's the Answer (pdf)
- Consumers score the right to freeze credit (pdf)
- Colleges urged to rein in credit card companies' activities on campus (pdf)
- Credit card holders livid about 'rate-jacking'
Credit Scores
- Credit Scores FAQs
- Fair Isaac's New credit score (pdf)
- ...Ten things you should know about your credit card...
- Credit bureau move creates 'secret' scores
Financial Aid & Student Loans
- Counselors warn of college scams
- Ouch! Students getting stung trying to find $$$ for college
- Student Loans
- Student borrowers over a barrel
- Student suffocate under tens of thousands in loans
- The National Survey of America's college student
- Changes in student loan programs at the center of federal budget fight (pdf)
- Advice for borrowers (pdf)
- No-brainer: combine your student loans now (pdf)
- Inside Higher Ed :: MyRichUncle, InYourFace (pdf)
- Inside Higher Ed :: '60 Minutes' vs. Sallie Mae (pdf)
- Loan Consolidation Pros and Cons (pdf)
- Student loans- a life sentence (pdf)
- White House gets $20B college aid bill (pdf)
- Watchdog: Beware of college 'scholarship' scam
Relationships and Money
- 5 Money Rules for Moving in Together (pdf)
- 10 Questions to Ask Before Saying "I do" (pdf)
- Saying No to Co-Signing
Your Life. Your Money.
- How to buy a scooter for your commute
- With Funds Tight, College Students Get Creative (pdf)
- BBB Warns Consumers
- Surviving the Recession
Money Matters Newsletter Archives
- August - September 2009 (pdf)
- May - June 2009 (pdf)
- March - April 2009 (pdf)
- January - February 2009 (pdf)
- November - December 2008 (pdf)
- September - October 2008 (pdf)
- July - August 2008 (pdf)
- May - June 2008 (pdf)
- March - April 2008 (pdf)
- January - February 2008 (pdf)
- September - December 2007 (pdf)
- July - August 2007 (pdf)
- May - June 2007 (pdf)
- March - April 2007 (pdf)
- January - February 2007 (pdf)
- September - December 2006 (pdf)
- July - August 2006 (pdf)