Fall 2006

Campus Plastic

College students cope with unsecured debt
By Betty Joyce Nash

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Related Links

Dr. Robert Manning's reports on consumer credit

Boushey, Heather. "Student Debt: Bigger and Bigger." Center for Economic and Policy Research, September 2005.

"Credit Card Ownership and Behavior Among Traditional-Age Undergraduates, 2003-04." American Council on Education, July 2006.

"Report to the Congress on Practices of the Consumer Credit Industry in Soliciting and Extending Credit and their Effects on Consumer Debt and Insolvency." Federal Reserve Board of Governors, June 2006.

Research and Information on College Students and Credit Cards, Nellie Mae