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Playlist: Mortgages and college
Posted by Christina Huh
For Marketplace, Money Friday, April 15, 2011
This week's show touches on one of the biggest -- and possibly most expensive -- financial decision in your life: College. Mark Katrowitz of FinAid.org just wrote a book on tips for winning scholarships and he shares some of them with Tess. We also learn about a new tool that merges social media and scholarships. And freelance journalist Jenn Miller also gives her two cents on picking colleges: Pick the cheapest one. Chris Farrell also helps a father decide how to fund his daughter's education.
Another big financial decision is your mortgage. We talk to a family who's mortgage-free -- one of the lucky third of Americans who are. And also we look into whether mortgage servicers are changing the foreclosure process enough to prevent another housing meltdown.
Reporter Eve Troeh sees how fishermen in the Gulf are fairing, one year after the BP oil spill. Reuters blogger Mitch Lipka also talked to Tess about the shadowy world of bank fees.
TGIF. Here are the songs we played:
You know as a radical left wing conservative I am really pissed off at the fact that you let one of your questioners say that she's 30 years old and as everyone has been telling her "social security won't be there for her when she retires" without challenging that assumption. You have an obligation to point that out that her assumption is not true. If the social security tax 'cap' is raised above the ridiculously low $107,000 where it is now to something more realistic there will be plenty of money for her to receive social security. I frankly wish the radical right wing crazies in the House of Representatives had been able to cut all funding for NPR in the last budget bill. I'm sick of hearing their right wing radical talking points repeated ad nauseam by every show NPR airs, including yours.
