Defend Your Dollars is the website of the Consumers Union Financial Services Campaign, where we support reforms to the financial marketplace to curb bad practices by banks and lenders.
Private Student Loans Nearly 50 percent of undergraduate private student loan borrowers fail to exhaust their low-cost federal student loans to finance their college education. Families need help understanding college financing.
Are you in debt because of short-term loans? Whether backed up by your paycheck, your car title or expected tax return, the results are the same: You end up paying too much to borrow a small amount of money, and usually at a time when your financial situation is the most desperate. Tell us your experience.
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