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Practical Money Skills for Life

Practical Money Skills for Life Check out this amazing site dedicated to teaching children and teens about money. Practical Money Skills for Life....More

Teaching Children about Money.

Personal finance tip - 2/25/05 Want to get your children involved in saving and avoid debt later in life?Get some tips from Garnet News Service here....More

Valuable Assistance to Consumers Affected by Identity Theft Offered by Award-Winning Non-Profit Institute of Consumer Financial Education and Global Fraud Solutions

“Consumers across the nation can expect to be bombarded with offers to sign up for credit monitoring services, identity theft prevention services, identity theft insurance, or other programs and services of limited value by companies aimed solely at profiting from...More

Tips: Damage Control for ID Theft Victims

Yahoo! News - Tips: Damage Control for ID Theft Victims In the wake of the ChoicePoint's loss of consumer data to con artits, Rachel Konrad gives her tips for anybody who feels they may have become a victim of identity...More

Personal Finance: Lost in the depths of debt

Personal Finance: Lost in the depths of debt Cutting up our credit cards helped us climb out of debt (we paid off our last non-mortgage debt Friday, by the way!), but they're not totally evil.Credit cards aren't the root of...More

Bankruptcies hit record in Michigan

Bankruptcies hit record in Michigan - 02/22/05 Personal bankruptcies are at an all-time high in Michigan.More than 63,700 Michigan residents sought protection from their creditors last year, according to state bankruptcy court records, up 2.3 percent from 2003 and 38...More

Study finds medical bills drive about half of personal bankruptcies

KRT Wire | 02/01/2005 | Study finds medical bills drive about half of personal bankruptcies A new study conducted by Harvard University researchers, published today in Health Affairs, has revealed that up to half of all personal bankrtupcies in the...More

Aussies 'Can't Afford' To Pay Off Debt :: Bernama.com

Aussies 'Can't Afford' To Pay Off Debt :: Bernama.com Newspoll research commissioned by BankWest found 95 percent of Australians who currently have personal debt believe paying it off is a priority. But 60 percent say they cannot afford to make...More