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By: Howard Dvorkin

This month’s Debt.com scholarship winner suffered a tumor in her brain as a child. Her hardship is now her motivation to become a physician.

By: Howard Dvorkin

This month’s Debt.com scholarship winner wants to use her earnings to help her work toward a degree in medicine to help people in her home country of Haiti.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Debt.com spoke to other financial experts at FinCon and asked them to recount their worst money mistakes. Here are my five favorites.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Financial news often makes it seem like Americans make irresponsible financial decisions, but for the most part people are maing the right money choices.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Want to save money on your back-to-school shopping list? Look for cuts. Decide what you don’t really need this year, then don’t buy it.

By: Howard Dvorkin

This month’s Debt.com scholarship winner for aggressive scholarship applicants plans to work as a nurse after she graduates from college.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Katie Waples has five siblings, four parents, and big plans. The 17-year-old from Billings, Montana, wants to be a nurse — not just as a career, but as a calling. This is what she told Debt.com.

By: Howard Dvorkin

From our physical health to how little college graduates expect to make during their lifetimes, this financial data concerns me with how many Americans don’t have financial freedom.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Stress can take years off of your life. Many relate stress to work, but what about debt? Debt-related stress isn’t any different.

By: Howard Dvorkin

“I have put in 250-300 hours to scholarship applications,” he says proudly, almost defiantly. “I have applied for approximately 96 scholarships now, and I plan to keep adding on to that number so that I can increase my chances of winning more money to reduce my college expenses.” Read more.

By: Howard Dvorkin

Learn how this scholarship winner got rid of her financial problems. Isabella McQueen is the latest winner of the Debt.com Scholarship for Aggressive Scholarship Applicants. McQueen grew up in New York. Her parents were teachers, but they had a lot to learn themselves about finances.

By: Howard Dvorkin

According to the population, recently polled 23,000 people in 17 countries and asked what factors make up “the good life.” The top five responses: good health, financial security, time, leisure, and more.