debt

"As a young adult, you face unique financial challenges when actualizing your dreams. But given the right tools and resources, you can learn to spend wisely and live on your own terms"--Provided by publisher.

The articles collected in this volume trace the issues that affect students, consumers, corporate entities, and the nation when it comes to addressing and managing debt. Media literacy questions and terms aid readers in assessing news coverage of the topic.

Student loans. Medical bills. Mortgages. The national deficit. Debt touches so many parts of American life, from the individual citizen to the United States as a whole. A complex issue, debt can be alternately beneficial, such as when building credit, or it can do irreparable damage to a person's credit score, housing prospects, lifestyle, and more. The articles collected in this volume trace the issues that affect students, consumers, corporate entities, and the nation when it comes to addressing and managing debt. Media literacy questions and terms aid readers in assessing news coverage of the topic.

Debt dangers shows how Chelsea and Jack make decisions about borrowing, when loans may be appropriate, and why it is best for kids to say no and live within their means.

"Examines credit and debt, including the various forms of credit, how to use credit, smart ways to manage debt, and using credit wisely to build a strong financial future"--Provided by publisher.

A book for young readers about the act of passing a government budget.

"On the day she went silent, Speth never meant for anyone to follow her lead--or to start a rebellion of Silents. But after taking down the tyrant Silas Rog and freeing the city from his grasp, everyone is looking to Speth for answers she doesn't have. All she wants is to find her parents, who are shackled to a lifetime of servitude in exchange for a debt they can never repay. But how can Speth leave her friends to fend for themselves when she's the reason their city is in chaos?"--Dust jacket.

Taki thought he was getting a nice quiet job in order to pay off his father's debt; but instead, he is ordered by the priest Shikimi to cleanse the church of all impurities--including zombies.

Contains primary and secondary source documents that provide varying perspectives on the issue of whether or not a college degree is valuable.

"The central motivation for this book is imagining an alternative to the student loan program that better aligns with America's belief that effort and ability should be the deciding factors in determining economic differences. It positions postsecondary education properly as the central lever by which American children can secure for themselves promising futures, and it supports analysis of the extent to which current policy interventions facilitate these mechanisms, or not"--Provided by publisher.