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Fair Campus Credit Cards
The USPIRG Education Fund released a white paper report, Characteristics of a Fair Campus Credit Card, on April 23, 2008. The paper is a companion piece to the March 27 release of Campus Credit Card Trap, a survey of over 1,500 college students in 14 states to determine credit card practices and attitudes toward aggressive marketing on campus. Young people are different from other adult targets of the credit card industry. The paper outlines the terms and conditions that credit cards marketed to college students should have to be considered.
Read Characteristics of a Fair Campus Credit Card.
Read The Campus Credit Card Trap. |
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| COMMENT ON RULES - The Federal Reserve Board and other regulators have shocked the banks by proposing strong rules to ban unfair credit card practices that prey upon students and others. We need your help to make their rules final. Click here!
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Sign
the Principles
We’re working with college campuses to tighten up rules around credit card marketing on campus. Our principles are supported by several national academic groups. Sign on to help promote reform.
Other Initiatives to Control Campus Marketing - Our effort asks college and university administrators to tighten up the marketing rules on campus to rein in aggressive credit card marketing. But many elected officials are taking up the issue across the country. Read more.
Check out more actions and events you can conduct on your campus! |
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| Our ability to promote solutions to out of control credit card marketing on campus rests with you. Tell us your story of over the top credit card marketing, terrible credit card terms and conditions, and help us build our case. |
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