Financial Aid, Scholarships, & Student Loans Pursuing higher education is a huge financial investment. For young people, navigating financial aid, scholarships, and loans is daunting, and no one wants to start out their adult life saddled with crushing debt. Making good financial choices early on sets students up to leave school with [...]

3 Common Lending Practices to Beware of This week in our ongoing series for Credit Education Month, we’ll be talking about three common lending products that customers may not always know have the potential to have a serious negative impact on their credit. If everyone is doing it, it must be trustworthy, [...]

How to Identify and Avoid Predatory Loans For Credit Education Month 2022, we decided to focus on the link between credit and debt – two subjects that often go hand in hand. For this week’s article, we’re talking about loans, and specifically how to identify and avoid predatory ones. Sometimes it feels [...]

Kicking-off Credit Education Month Each year, Whatcom Asset Building Coalition promotes Credit Education Month throughout March. During the next few weeks, we’ll be posting articles, tips, and FAQs around credit. This year, we’ll be focusing on the relationship between debt and credit, with discussion and practical tips on how to identify and [...]