Stretching Your Dollar: How College Students Should Manage Personal Finances
Money management and personal finances are still not part of national education curriculums leaving the path to mounting debt clear for incoming college students. Mallon FitzPatrick, managing director and head of wealth planning at Robertson Stephens, joined 'Stretching Your Dollar' with tips for students to successfully manage their money while in college.
Irrigation might have saved Jackson's hay, but she and her husband rejected the idea about 10 years ago over the cost: as much as $75,000 for a new well and all the equipment. But now — with an extended drought and another U.S. heat wave this week that will broil her land about an hour northwest of Dallas for days in 100-degree-plus temperatures — Jackson said she is “kind of rethinking.”
Children’s advocacy groups including Fairplay and Common Sense Media are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google, saying the tech giant serves personalized ads to kids on YouTube despite federal law prohibiting the practice.
U.S. regulators on Wednesday announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving worker safety at thousands of the bargain stores across the country.
