Consumer Credit Counseling Services
Current statistics on trends in consumer spending, saving and borrowing, as well as other financial literacy topics are available from several excellent sources. CDC offers the following helpful links:
Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling AgenciesBetter Business Bureau
Center for Entrepreneurship & Economic Education, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Consumer Economics Update
Consumer Federation of America
Council on Accreditation
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Federal Reserve Board (Credit Protection Laws)
Federal Reserve Education
Federal Trade Commission
Goodwill Industries International
Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
Missouri Council on Economic Education
National Foundation for Credit Counseling
National Credit Union Administration
National Consumer Law Center
National Council on Economic Education
National Endowment for Financial Education/American Express Economic Independence Clearinghouse
Wise Pockets World
Debt Management
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How the
Credit CARD Act
Affects You Beginning
February 22
Now debt-free, former CCCS client Bob V. is a Human Resources professional in Virginia. When Bob decided to take action to turn his financial life around, he was recently divorced and at the bottom of a very deep hole of debt. Well-educated, with a Master's Degree, he never expected to find himself in tens of thousands of dollars in debt and that horrifying feeling of being out of control.
Bob V.
