For more information about credit cards and how to handle them, read more. This section links you to several articles that you may find helpful. Note: To read any of the articles, you must have Acrobat reader.
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Credit Cards |
SmartMoney.com |
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| Best & Worst Credit Cards | Consumer Reports |
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| Credit-Card Appeal: A New Look, Smell | WSJ.com |
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San Diego Union-Tribune |
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| For Happy Holidays, Leave Credit Cards Home |
San Diego Union-Tribune
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| How Teens Get Sucked into Credit-Card Debt |
MSN Money |
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| Rewards Roller Coaster — Tips for navigating the complex world of credit-card rewards programs |
Dow Jones MarketWatch |
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| College Students, Watch Your Credit — Terri Cullen urges students to avoid the mistakes she made by taking on too much debt | WSJ.com |
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Credit Scores |
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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| Credit Scores You Don't Know You Have |
Wall Street Journal |
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| How Does Your Knowledge of Credit Scores Stack Up? |
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Financial Education |
12 Myths about Bankruptcy |
MSN Money |
WSJ.com |
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| Keeping Your Financial Footing at 22 — So You Can Buy That House at 32 |
Wall Street Journal |
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| Mired in Debt? Here's What to Do |
AARP Bulletin |
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| Your Kid's Teacher - The Bank |
WSJ.com |
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Article Title |
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Other |
Jack in the Box Adding Quick-Pay System |
San Diego Union-Tribune |
| Marketing Plastic to Students Causes Lawmakers, Educators to Meltdown |
Bankrate.com |
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| The official site to help consumers to obtain their free credit report.
You can request a free credit report once every 12 months from each of the nationwide consumer credit-reporting companies: Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.
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Bankrate.com continually surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide clear, objective, and unbiased rates to consumers. They provide free rate information to consumers on more than 300 financial products, including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans, and online banking fees. The site features the following calculators:
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CardWeb.com includes:
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Credit Cards.com is a free online resource where consumers can shop, compare, and apply for credit cards online. The site lists credit-card offers from leading U.S. credit card companies. The list is searchable. The site ranks credit-card offers in an unbiased manner based on categories. Consumers can search the credit-card directory by card type, including low-interest credit cards, credit cards with rewards programs, airline credit cards, cash-back credit cards, small-business credit cards, college-student credit cards, instant-approval credit cards, as well as prepaid debit cards. Each offer displays the APR, the annual fee, the credit required for approval, and details about the offer. |
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| One of the three major credit-reporting agencies | |
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| This site is created by the Fair Isaac Company, and it enables you to request your FICO score for all three credit bureaus for a fee. It also has a Credit Education section. You can find out about credit scores and credit reports. It has tons and tons of online financial calculators, such as auto, loan, debt and credit card, and savings calculators. | |
| The Personal Finance section of this site has a special section called Debt Management. It contains debt management worksheets and many articles on debt management, credit cards, credit reports, and identity theft. | |
| One of the three major credit-reporting agencies | |
| *The information provided on this table is an incomplete listing of the features offered on these sites. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California is not responsible for accuracy of the information provided on these sites, nor does it endorse or recommend a particular site. | |
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