Many young professionals in their twenties are dealing with debt from credit cards and unpaid student loans. Managing personal finances can be difficult when you must handle expenses like insurance...

By carefully choosing student loans, grants, and scholarships as part of your entire college financial aid package, you can avoid going into heavy college debt. Kimberly Palmer, senior editor for ...

Helping Cass build healthy everyday spending habits.

Part of a presentation to Visa on developing financial literacy among college students. (From Play to Innovation, Stanford d.school)

A short guide to recognizing and avoiding phishing scams.
This video comes in an unbranded "presentation quality" version that can be licensed for use in the workplace. http://www.commoncraft.com/...

This is a public service video from AIE.org (my employer).

Credit card companies don't give you the entire picture when they're trying to get your business. Do you know the real cost of items purchased on a credit card?

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach appears on CNN with Ali Velshi. Lynnette discusses her book Zero Debt for College Grads, and gives advice to on how to pay off student loans.

defaultmovie.com

Default: The Student Loan Documentary is a feature-length documentary chronicling the stories of borrowers from different backgrounds affected by the private student lending industry and their struggles to change the system.

In 2005 private student loans were exempted of ALL consumer protections. No matter when their loans were taken, many borrowers now find themselves in a paralyzing predicament of repaying two, three or multiple times the original amount borrowed, with no bankruptcy protection, no cap on fees and penalties and no recourse to the law. The consequences are dire, with stories of borrowers in financial and emotional ruin.

Beyond these personal accounts, DEFAULT will explain the differences between federal and private student loans, a subject often overlooked by colleges and high school counselors. It will also give detail on the rise of the private lending industry and of college debt.

While the media has focused on the disaster that sub-prime mortgages have turned out to be, only superficial attention has been given to financial giants which have been profiting by approving loans to low-income students with variable interest rates up to 25%.

As The National Consumer Law Center concluded in their March 2008 report titled “Paying The Price: The High Cost of Private Student Loans and the Dangers for Student Borrowers”, there are ominous signs that “the student loan market is headed for the same fate as the subprime mortgage industry .”

Filmmakers

Aurora Meneghello (director/writer) is an award winning fine art photographer and a filmmaker. Her interest in the power of images to convey thoughts and feelings started at an early age and has fueled her passion for documentary filmmaking. She has worked on fiction and non-fiction projects as researcher, director of photography, camera operator and gaffer. Her background in art and photography and her work as an educator provide her with both aesthetic sensibili

This is a public service video in which a college graduate explains how living like a professional and accumulating credit card debt while in college forced her to live like a student when she got out. From AIE.org (where I work full time).

Over the past several decades, Americans 25–34 years old experienced significant declines in net worth while increasing their debt. For every dollar worth of assets owned, this group carries 70 cents worth of debt.

The Feed the Pig campaign aims to reverse this trend by empowering younger Americans to take charge of their personal finances by living within their means and saving for long-term financial security.

Statistics demonstrate that this group’s financial behaviors, while less established, tend toward debt accumulation, and this is happening during a period of milestone events such as getting married, having children and caring for aging parents. But there is hope: more working time before retirement means that their current financial decisions have a greater impact (positive or negative) on their long-term financial security. With this campaign, AICPA and Ad Council hope to get younger Americans to establish better spending and saving habits.

The campaign draws upon a traditional savings symbol, the piggy bank, to encourage 25-34 year olds to find the benefits of saving for every stage of life.

Over the past several decades, Americans 25–34 years old experienced significant declines in net worth while increasing their debt. For every dollar worth of assets owned, this group carries 70 cents worth of debt.

The Feed the Pig campaign aims to reverse this trend by empowering younger Americans to take charge of their personal finances by living within their means and saving for long-term financial security.

Statistics demonstrate that this group’s financial behaviors, while less established, tend toward debt accumulation, and this is happening during a period of milestone events such as getting married, having children and caring for aging parents. But there is hope: more working time before retirement means that their current financial decisions have a greater impact (positive or negative) on their long-term financial security. With this campaign, AICPA and Ad Council hope to get younger Americans to establish better spending and saving habits.

The campaign draws upon a traditional savings symbol, the piggy bank, to encourage 25-34 year olds to find the benefits of saving for every stage of life.

Only 10% of high schools in America teach financial management. It's not surprise then that more than 50% of college students accumulated more than $5,000 in credit card debt while in school.

The US Department of Treasury along with the Ad Council, have developed a campaign to combat the issue of debt and financial illiteracy. The campaign targets young adults, ages 18-24, who are just starting to be financially independent and are experiencing debt and other forms of financial distress for the first time.

Overall, they do not have the knowledge about basic credit facts and have not been taught the importance of good credit and the negative impact of bad credit. The campaign encourages young adults to think twice about spending in the moment and to seek more knowledge about how their spending behavior can affect their credit history and immediate future. It teaches how overspending may “cost” them more than they think. It can cost them a job, a car loan or an apartment. It can also cause public embarrassment.

The campaign's PSAs direct young adults to controlyourcredit.gov, which features an interactive, educational game to explain the importance of having a good credit score and how it can be improved.

Only 10% of high schools in America teach financial management. It's not surprise then that more than 50% of college students accumulated more than $5,000 in credit card debt while in school.

The US Department of Treasury along with the Ad Council, have developed a campaign to combat the issue of debt and financial illiteracy. The campaign targets young adults, ages 18-24, who are just starting to be financially independent and are experiencing debt and other forms of financial distress for the first time.

Overall, they do not have the knowledge about basic credit facts and have not been taught the importance of good credit and the negative impact of bad credit. The campaign encourages young adults to think twice about spending in the moment and to seek more knowledge about how their spending behavior can affect their credit history and immediate future. It teaches how overspending may “cost” them more than they think. It can cost them a job, a car loan or an apartment. It can also cause public embarrassment.

The campaign's PSAs direct young adults to controlyourcredit.gov, which features an interactive, educational game to explain the importance of having a good credit score and how it can be improved.