Be credit card smart; How extreme credit card debt happens to the smartest college student

From: New Pittsburgh Courier | Date: March 2, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

You work hard, sacrifice and send your child off to college to get a quality higher education, and he/she returns with thousands of dollars in credit card debt. In some cases the credit card debt is far in excess of their educational costs. How could this happen in the American college system?

When my niece moved to our town to go to college, she gave her university our home as her permanent address. This gave me a wonderful opportunity to experience something I had little knowledge about. Over the course of several months I received dozens of calls a week from credit card companies offering ...

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