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Paying for college /
Discover a concrete financial plan to finance a college education Financing a college education is a daunting task no matter what your circumstances. Bestselling author and personal finance expert, Eric Tyson offers tried and true strategic advice on how to understand loans, know your options, and h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Learning made easy.
--For dummies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1 Understanding Paying for College
- Chapter 1 Confronting High College Prices and the Modern Job Market
- Confronting the High Prices of Higher Education
- A brief historical overview of colleges and who completes it
- Don't college grads make more money?
- Mushrooming student debt and its underlying causes
- Looking at How College Pricing Works
- How colleges see you
- Saving now and later
- Somebody give me some money!
- Employment Reality and What Students Say They Want from College
- What students actually do in college
- Hiring and jobs
- Looking at How the Higher Education Landscape is Changing
- College enrollment is declining
- Some colleges are failing and closing
- Colleges are under pressure to contain their prices
- Lower cost and faster alternatives to colleges are growing
- Bottom line is good for you, the college and higher education consumer
- Chapter 2 Financial Planning Steps When Your Kids are Young
- Kids Are Costly! Getting Your Finances in Order
- Building the pillars of personal finance
- Developing and hitting savings goals
- Finding Saving Methods Given How College Financial Aid Works
- What financial aid penalizes
- Recognizing that financial aid rules change
- Spending on Your Kids without Breaking the Bank
- Setting limits, guidelines, and goals with your spouse
- Setting limits with your kids
- Keeping Spending in Line: Using Youth Sports as an Example
- Focusing on the lifelong benefits of sports
- Being mindful of expenses and set budgets
- Being aware of the agendas of "professional" (also known as paid) coaches
- Realizing good parents can make good coaches
- Letting kids simply play
- the value of pick-up games
- Considering the opportunity cost of sports' time and expenses
- Being wary of the winning addiction
- Completing the Personal Finance Olympics of Childrearing
- Chapter 3 Exposing Your Kids to Work, Finances, and the "Real World"
- Laying the Foundation for Raising Money-Smart Kids in the Early Years
- Educating when shopping
- Taking your kid to work
- Dealing with What Kids Are Exposed To
- Looking at the effects of advertising
- Understanding habit development and setting limits
- Developing the Work-Money Connection
- Regarding allowances and chores
- Encouraging work outside your home as they get older
- Teaching Your Kids About More Real-World Money Topics
- Being mindful of your statements and attitudes about money
- Don't buy them a car!
- Introducing the right and wrong ways to use credit and debit cards
- Talking to kids about investing
- Part 2 Finding Acceptance
- Chapter 4 Making the Most of Your Kid's Academic and Outside Experiences
- Understanding the Value of Academic Success (Good Grades)
- Jumping Through Hoops: Marketing of High School Students