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Campus

Faculty, students share credit card advice

Emmeline Blythe
By Emmeline Blythe
June 04, 2024 12:00 AM
Faculty and students shared their advice when it comes to getting a credit card and building a high credit score.
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Nation

Debt limit deal passes, brings personal finances into the spotlight

By Emma Everett
June 06, 2023 12:00 AM
President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan debt limit deal into law on June 3, averting a national debt default after weeks of contentious, to-the-wire debate.
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Featured

BYU students are dealing with inflation

By Annika Ohran
May 30, 2023 12:00 AM
BYU students have been budgeting and cutting costs to cope with inflation spikes.
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Readers' Forum

Readers' Forum: 7/30/19

July 30, 2019 12:00 AM
Evolution and creation
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Nation

Newly elected Chicago mayor: Victory means 'a city reborn'

By Associated Press
April 03, 2019 12:00 AM
Lori Lightfoot celebrates at her election night rally at the Hilton Chicago after defeating Toni Preckwinkle in the Chicago mayoral election, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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Healthy Living

Money behind the marathon: What's the real cost?

By Edison Thalman
August 15, 2018 12:00 AM
Marathons offer the opportunity to get in better shape and compete in great events. They require considerable training to succeed. (Tessa Taylor)
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Campus

Education Week: Learning to survive during the beginning years of marriage

By Stacie Faulk
August 17, 2016 12:00 AM
Expectations differ for many newlyweds when entering marriage. Mark D. Ogletree discussed how sharing expectations can improve marriages. (Photo courtesy of Maddi Driggs)
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Campus Events

BYU students underutilize scholarship opportunities

By Madison Mcbride
February 03, 2016 12:00 AM
A student goes to the BYU admission page to apply for scholarships. Most of the BYU continuing student scholarship application are due March 1. (Maddi Driggs)
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Local

More grads struggle to stay afloat despite student debt

By Cassie Arntsen
February 02, 2016 12:00 AM
Evan Clinger and fiancee Hanah Belnap study in a scene from a YouTube video discussing the impact of student loan debt in their relationship. (Cassie Arntsen)
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Local

Salt Lake City Mayor's positive ratings overshadowed by opponent's as race tightens

By Beau Jones
November 03, 2015 12:00 AM
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker is viewed favorably by more than half of the city's likely voters, but his opponent, Jackie Biskupski still has him beat, according to the latest UtahPolicy.com survey.
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Campus

Scholarship program helps hundreds of single parents attend Education Week

By Danica Baird
August 19, 2015 12:00 AM
Dana Pledgie attends for her second year at Education Week.
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Healthy Living

Start building a credit score while in school

By Victoria Wilkins
July 30, 2015 12:00 AM
Building your credit score sooner rather than later can help you in the long run.
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Campus Events

Jeff Hill: Living joyfully within your means

By Danica Baird
June 09, 2015 12:00 AM
BYU professor Jeff Hill spoke to BYU students on the importance of fiscal responsibility.(Maddi Dayton)
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Featured

How to survive on a college budget

By Stacey Koller
March 03, 2015 12:00 AM
It's the 22nd of the month, and a student only has three packages of Ramen left and $29 dollars in his bank account. He doesn't get paid until Friday and hopes his paycheck is enough to cover rent. This is often a scenario among full-time college students. But how do students take a 20-hour-per-week-paycheck and make it enough to survive?
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Local

Learning financial lessons from a smart phone

By Kurt Hanson
October 02, 2012 12:00 AM
Texting, tweeting and making the occasional phone call is now a cemented part of most people’s lives.
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Eleven News

BYU Professors Develop New System to Detect Fraud

By Kathleen Keller
October 01, 2012 12:00 AM
No business wants to become a victim of fraud. A team of BYU Professors say they've developed a system where businesses can use their own financial statements to prevent things that could lead to bankruptcy. Information Systems Professor Anthony Vance was one of four professors to work on this system and he says that publicly available information plays a major role in detecting fraud.
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Opinion Outpost

Viewpoint: Bloomberg's Business Week cover — a boom or bust?

July 17, 2012 12:00 AM
Last week, Bloomberg's Business Week published Caroline Winter's article 'How Mormons make money.' The article quickly got traction, even eliciting a fairly lengthy press release from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, the piece went viral — at least in the LDS community — after Business Week released the cover for the issue.
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Campus

Seven Steps to financial aid success

June 22, 2012 12:00 AM
By Stephen Hill, Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships
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