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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC. – 1981
Designed for the general public and possibly suitable also for high school economics students, this pamphlet discusses the provisions of the Truth in Lending Law. The act requires that creditors state credit charges in a uniform way. The pamphlet provides a brief description of finance charges and annual percentage rates. It also focuses on…
Descriptors: Advertising, Compliance (Legal), Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
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Public Health Service (DHHS), Rockville, MD. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. – 1983
This annotated bibliography of health promotion materials describes pamphlets, films, and posters for the general public and contains program guidelines, directories, and technical papers of interest to health professionals. To compile this volume, each Public Health Service agency selected, from among its publications, those which offer…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Disease Control, Educational Resources, Health Education
Gittings, Tom; Goldsmith, Ken – 2000
From the earliest times when commodities such as tobacco and beaver pelts were used as money, to the present when credit and debit cards are commonplace, money has played a central role in the U.S. experience. This booklet provides an historical overview of the concept of money as it has evolved in the United States. The booklet is divided into…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Economics Education, Government Role, Monetary Systems
Eastern Michigan Univ., Ypsilanti. National Inst. for Consumer Education. – 1992
This document contains five lists of consumer resources pertaining to credit, credit problems, and home mortgages and equity loans. The first list, targeted at adults, provides information on general credit, applying for credit and contracts, seniors and women and credit, credit options and costs, credit protection, credit reports and bureaus, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audiotape Cassettes, Computer Software, Consumer Education
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC. – 1980
Designed for the general public and possibly suitable also for high school economics students, this booklet examines the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFT), which protects consumers who use debit cards for the electronic transfer of funds. This commercially adapted version of the character in "Alice in Wonderland," uses a story-teller…
Descriptors: Automation, Banking, Compliance (Legal), Consumer Economics
Bank of America NT & SA, San Francisco, CA. – 1980
This report describes principles and techniques for credit management. Topics covered include: (1) methods of determining personal credit limits; (2) ways to keep track of credit use; (3) suggestions for planning credit use; (4) explanations of single-payment charge accounts, revolving credit, installment credit, and consolidation loans; and (5)…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Credit Cards, Credit (Finance), Expenditures
Bank of America NT & SA, San Francisco, CA. – 1983
This report explains the importance of keeping personal records, describes types of records to keep, and suggests places in which to keep them and ways to organize them. Guidelines are offered for keeping the following types of records: (1) personal documents (family records, wills, passports, diplomas, and social security cards); (2) property…
Descriptors: Charts, Consumer Education, Guidelines, Information Storage