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College Credit

By Jennifer Mathieu March 20, 2003

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Jennifer Fuller had to drop out of school so she could work to pay off her debt. She regularly puts in 70 hours a week waiting tables.

Former UH professor Robert Manning says credit card companies use predatory business practices to lure in college kids.

Kristin Kassaw, a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, says college students may purchase high-ticket items to boost self-esteem.

Credit card companies take advantage of the fact that most college students have little to no knowledge of how credit works, says Harvey Warren, president of the National Consumer Council.

If Texas schools have drug awareness classes and sex education, they should also have financial literacy courses, says Danette Tidwell of the Texas Jumpstart Coalition.

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Jennifer Fuller had to drop out of school so she could work to pay off her debt. She regularly puts in 70 hours a week waiting tables.

Daniel Kramer

Jennifer Fuller had to drop out of school so she could work to pay off her debt. She regularly puts in 70 hours a week waiting tables.

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