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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The New York Times 'Your Money' personal finance columnist offers a deeply reported and emotionally honest approach to the biggest financial decision families will ever make: what to pay for college.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive and insightful look at the modern workplace and how employees are managed, where the new approach is driven by the quirks of financial accounting to the detriment of employees and the long-term success of the organization. Real wages have stagnated or declined for most workers, job insecurity has increased, and retirement income is uncertain. Hours of work for white collar employees have increased steadily, opportunities for advancement...
Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
On the first day of high school, Kristina Ellis's mom, a single, working mother who lost her husband to cancer, informed her that she could not financially support her after graduation. Kristina would need to find her own way to pay for college. As an average student with less-than-impressive test scores, Kristina realized she would have to sell herself to scholarship committees if she wanted to stand out. That's when she devised the plan that led...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Provides information and guidance for funding a college education, covering financial aid eligibility and forms, tax implications, short- and long-term funding strategies, comparing aid offers, and other topics, and includes sample forms.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The founder of Scott's Cheap Flights explains why we're searching for airfare all wrong, shares the strategies that have saved his two million newsletter subscribers a collective $500 million on airfare, and presents a bold new approach for how to see the world while never overpaying for flights again.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1982, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans into $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells...
Author
Publisher
J. Ross Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Crushed is a timely and insightful work that sheds light on the state of American universities and their graduates. It takes readers on a fascinating and reflective journey into the current student debt crisis and how it has become a major burden to American society. Beyond just describing how we got into this huge mess, Crushed also offers actionable public-policy steps to help fix this ever-growing problem"--
Author
Series
Publisher
For Dummies, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"529 & Education Savings Plans For Dummies is your easy-to-follow and up-to-date guide to 529s, Coverdell accounts, and other savings and investment vehicles. Understand the costs associated with education, both right now and in the future, and then find ways to pay for those costs"--
Author
Publisher
SuperCollege, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With information on online and part-time classes and new financial aid, loan, and scholarship opportunities, this updated resource teaches adult students how to find and win scholarships, get financial aid for online programs, receive larger financial aid packages, take advantage of educational tax breaks, and cancel education debts with loan forgiveness programs"--
Author
Publisher
SuperCollege, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A resource for collegebound students and their parents on college financial aid, scholarships, loans, and grants. Provides strategies for finding and winning scholarships, tax credits, asking for more financial aid, saving, student loan forgiveness, financial aid applications, state financial aid, military service, adult students, graduate students, and internships"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Game On, Susan F. Paterno--Director of the Chapman University journalism program and mother of four recent college grads--leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. Is the college admissions game really stacked against you? Is it getting tougher to get into top schools-into any school-or not? How will COVID-19 change all of these things? Susan F. Paterno, a lifelong academic who knows...
16) Budget travel
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Budget Travel For Dummies will help you plan your next vacation and make it affordable, with tips on how to maximize your budget and squeeze amazing experiences out of every penny. Written by a travel expert who has visited 60 countries across 6 continents, this book will help you find the best deals, including cheap flights and accommodations. You'll learn how to pick a destination, set and stick to a budget, minimize bank and credit card fees, and...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a "reeducation" camp-manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"--
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