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As costs rise for tuition, books and dorm-living, you'd think students would want to spend less on everything else. Think again. According to a 2010 report, the nearly 16 million college students who fill campuses this academic year will each drop about $361 more than last year in discretionary...

When the U.S. Department of Education published its new set of student aid rules recently, many education commentators saw a series of small tweaks to the current student aid system that came amid a few minor controversies -- and one glaring hole where a major controversy should have been. That...

For most college students, mid-November means cramming for finals and cranking out semester-end essays. But for those money-smart students who leave the library long enough to hit the mall, Black Friday sales afford the opportunity to buy stuff you'd get anyway, only much, much cheaper. Even...

One of the most disturbing aspects of the home foreclosure crisis is how much damage it has caused in minority communities. Activist group Committee for Responsible Lending finds black and Hispanic borrowers are twice as likely to have lost their homes.

The Monday following Thanksgiving and Black Friday has been known for a while as "Cyber Monday." That's the day when people who are sick of the story crowds, or, like my friend Tom Barlow, never ventured into them, go shopping online. But now that so many of us have high-speed internet at home,...