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C.R.E.A.M. FINANCIAL FORUMS: R U MONEY SMART?

Weekly Event - Every Wednesday: 11:00 AM (CT)

C.R.E.A.M. FINANCIAL FORUMS: R U MONEY SMART?

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Every Wednesday, the Caribbean Association of Midwest America and the Students of Caribbean Ancestry Club,  invites you to our Financial Literacy Presenations leading up to Money Smart Week in April.

  DO YOU KNOW>>>>

The difference between a credit and debit card? What are their advantages?

Why you would want a credit card?

How to balance your checkbook? Do you? How to balance your checkbook? Do you?

Where you can get a student loan? How much debt makes sense for your education?

How to get a deferment on a student loan?

How much you should have in an emergency fund? Where should you keep it?

How to figure compound interest on your account? Why it’s important?

Know how to set up a personal budget? Have you?

Know what percent of your income goes toward paying for housing? Food? Clothing? 
  

If it is better to rent or to buy? Can afford to buy a home ?

Meet us in the Student Lounge every Wednesday beginning January 26 through February 23, 2011  from 11 am - 12:30 pm to learn the answers to all these questions and more.

 

Where



Truman College - Student Lounge
1145 W Wilson Avenue
Room 1623
, Chicago

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Caribbean Association of Midwest America



The Caribbean Association of Midwest America (C.A.M.A.) is a non-profit charitable organization. The mission is to encourage, foster, promote, advance and stimulate economic and community empowerment, commerce, trade, business, finance, and professional interests through out Midwest America, The United States and the Caribbean. It comprises a unified body of people working towards a more prosperous outcome for Caribbean Americans here in the Midwest and the islands of the Caribbean including Panama, Guyana and Belize. The Association is non-political and non-sectarian.