Living Life Abundantly

It’s been seven months since the brave parents at McKinley Elementary School approached Compton Unified and handed in the petitions that sounded off a revolution that has the entire country talking. Today, they know that, starting this fall, they will get the quality education they fought so hard to get for their children and only [...]

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HuffPost blogger, host of the Suze Orman Show on CNBC and author of 10 books on personal finance, Suze Orman has spent her career helping people manage their finances. You sent in your personal finance questions for her. Now she’s answered them.
For more Suze Orman, you can follow her on Twitter or watch [...]

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Consumers have been drawn to balance transfer credit cards over the past months as these particular types of credit card opportunities have not only allowed some consumers access to credit, which will obviously be used for a variety of purposes, but whenever a balance transfer option is offered on a particular card, some consumers are [...]

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“Finally, you can change your repayment plan at any time, and there?s no penalty for paying your student loans off early.”
THAT’S a bad joke! If you can actually get your ‘servicer’ to tell you WHERE to send extra payments you’ll be doing better than most – and THEN there is the issue of whether they [...]

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This morning I woke up with a serious craving for Funnel Cake.
When I was a kid we use to go to Knotts Berry Farm and Six Flags Magic Mountain and the highlight was always FUNNEL CAKE.
I don’t think I’ll be visiting any amusement parks any time soon…
I have tried the funnel [...]

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Three decades after leaving her native Panama, Vielka McFarlane hasn’t forgotten how a first-class education can transform a poor kid with a hard-knocks life.

The Los Angeles charter school operator remembers leaner days and long hours helping her struggling family sell empanadas from a street cart. Her eyes mist when she speaks of her hardworking parents, [...]

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Compton parents, stymied in their efforts to petition for sweeping changes at their low-performing elementary school, now have another choice: They can send their children to a newly approved charter campus instead.

Celerity Educational Group announced Wednesday that its petition to start a school in Compton, which was rejected by the city school board, has [...]

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Monday, June 20, 2011

A partnership proposed between the City of Kuttawa and a Paducah technology firm could lead to increased broadband Internet service for the citys residents.
Kuttawa Fire Chief Bill Compton presented city council members with details of the proposal this week.
At issue is a request to the city to allow Systems Solution [...]

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The use of personal debt consolidation loans has been an options that numerous consumers explore when they are facing multiple debts on various obligations that range from credit cards, personal loans, student loans, or other financial obligations. However, many consumers make the mistake of not comparing interest rates and debt consolidation opportunities, as there are [...]

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For college graduates who are carrying student loan debts, the issue of unemployment may have arisen at various points in the lives of these men and women as there are certain graduates who have recently left college who are still finding it difficult to find employment, while others may be facing problems like underemployment, but [...]

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COMPTON, Calif. — Two residents of the Compton Community College District sued the district Friday over its voting areas, charging the boundaries are preventing Latinos from fairly participating in governing board elections.
Alex and Luis Landeros, who are brothers and active in local Latino political affairs, filed the [...]

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COMPTON, Calif. /California Newswire/ — California State Assemblymember Isadore Hall announced his campaign for Congress today. Hall intends to run in a new Congressional District, which according to the first draft of maps released by the California Citizens Redistricting Committee on June 10th, might include the cities of Compton, Carson, Lynwood, [...]

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The Student Loan Ranger would like to give a special shout out to all you new graduates!
As you know, we dedicate a blog post each month to questions we have received in order to shed some light on the educational debt decisions our readers face. This month, we are going to [...]

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College students graduating this spring are walking away with
more than just a diploma. Many will have debt — and lots of it.
The average debt at graduation was $24,000 in 2009, points out Jane
Bennett Clark in
The Dark Side of Student Debt
.
Students with federal loans can get some reprieve if they’re
struggling to make monthly payments. Here are [...]

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