{"id":645581,"date":"2013-03-06T15:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=29f4a9ef45e1238e774508a174c49c3c"},"modified":"2013-03-06T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T20:25:34","slug":"what-can-students-do-to-protect-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645581","title":{"rendered":"What Can Students Do to Protect Themselves?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/blog\/what-can-students-do-to-protect-themselves\/\">post was originally published<\/a> on the website of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as part of a series for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/blog\/category\/national-consumer-protection-week\/\"> National Consumer Protection Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Americans owe more than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XRQK1TFxWRs&amp;feature=youtu.be\">trillion dollars<\/a> in student loan debt. That&rsquo;s more than we owe on credit cards, more than we owe on car loans &ndash; and it&rsquo;s still growing.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&rsquo;re going to invest in a college degree, we want you to be able to choose the best deal for your situation. Students are overwhelmed with options and aren&rsquo;t sure how to compare them. In the absence of apples-to-apples comparisons, they&rsquo;re left to their own devices when making a choice that will have significant consequences for their financial future.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the suite of tools we&rsquo;ve developed to help you along the way:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/paying-for-college\/\">Paying for College<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From start to finish, we can help you make informed financial decisions about paying for college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfinance.gov\/paying-for-college\/repay-student-debt\/#Question-1\">Repay student debt <\/a><\/p>\n<p>While we can&rsquo;t give you advice for your exact situation, we can point you in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/what-can-students-do-protect-themselves\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. note: This post was originally published on the website of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as part of a series for National Consumer Protection Week Americans owe more than a trillion dollars in student loan debt. That&rsquo;s more than we owe on credit cards, more than we owe on car loans &ndash; and it&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}