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Released: November 28, 2011
The big business of credit cards on campus
Source: Geoff Williams, CardRatings.com
If you’re the parent of a student in college, you probably aren’t worrying too much about getting your son or daughter a new credit card. You have plenty of other things to worry about. Those pictures your son posts on Facebook, in which you hope, but rather doubt, that it’s grape soda in that wine glass. Wondering if your financial aid officer will consider bartering a semester of college for the Beanie Babies collection you invested in back in the 1990s.
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