2025-02-12
10 分钟Americans love using their credit cards.
The most secure and hassle-free way to pay,
but DC politicians want to change that with the Durban Marshall credit card bill.
This bill lets corporate megastores pick how your credit card is processed,
allowing them to use untested payment networks that jeopardize your data security and rewards.
Corporate megastores will make more money, and you pay the price.
Tell Congress to guard your card, because Americans lose when politicians choose.
Learn more at guardyourcard.com.
Here's your money briefing for Wednesday, February 12.
I'm Mariana Asburu for the Wall Street Journal.
Sierra Bile wanted a college degree from her dream school.
Without the $350,000 price tag.
My parents had gone to college.
They were not financially savvy.
I grew up poor, and so my confidence that I could pay for NYU had nothing to do with the resources around me.
It was driven by this desire to go to my dream school.
Even if that meant I had to stay up until the 1159 deadline and turn in that scholarship that I just found out about two days ago.
Her journey to go to school without taking on student loans tells a bigger story of the growing gap between college sticker prices and what attendees actually pay.
We'll hear from Wall Street Journal personal finance reporter Oyan Adodoyan about how students and families are finding ways to cut the cost of college education and how Sierra did it.
That's after the break.