Please Send Money. A Financial Survival Guide for Young Adults on Their Own.

Dara Duguay

ISBN 10: 1570717214 / ISBN 13: 9781570717215

Published by Sourcebooks Inc, 2001

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May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Please Send Money. A Financial Survival Guide for Young Adults on Their Own.
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570717214
• ISBN 13: 9781570717215
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1 pound

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Synopsis

Consider these facts. The average college student graduates with $20,000 of debt. Nearly 10 percent of students owe creditors more than $7,000. The average credit card debt of teenagers rose 305 percent from 1990 to 2000. The financial world has become increasingly complex and dangerous over the last decade, and young adults are the most vulnerable targets. Learning to manage your money wisely is now more important than ever.

Please Send Money provides students and young people with the tools they need to navigate the tumultuous world of personal finance. This book is filled with dozens of real-life stories, chronicling eye-opening financial mistakes that are commonly made. Duguay offers advice on how to avoid these problems, covering such topics as:

--Easy credit and the proliferation of credit cards
--How to manage car payments
--The dangers of using student loans for personal needs and wants
--Dealing with bankruptcy
--Overcoming material temptations

Please Send Money also contains various financial tools, from a psychology-of-money test to worksheets for determining budget, net worth, cost of credit and safe debt levels. Please Send Money is a book that no young adult should be without.

About the Author

Dara Duguay is the executive director of the National Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Finance and Literacy, an umbrella group of more than 90 governmental agencies, national organizations and corporations devoted in part to personal finance education for young people. Duguay has appeared on NBC, National Public Radio, ABC, CNN and Fox News. She lives in Washington, D.C.