Helping Students Avoid the Credit Card Trap

Students have enough problems with money without having to deal with credit card debt. 

So we launched a new project called Truth About Credit. Our goal is to help students not get ripped off by credit cards. Our program was recently endorsed by the New York Times.

We have several guide books for students, written by OSPIRG Advocate Christine Lindstrom. To the right is one of our campus events educating students about how to avoid the credit card trap.

We are working with our college administrators to restrict credit card marketing on campus.  That’s us with our Vice President for Student Affairs at SOU after SOU signed onto our principles.

Finally, we are promoting policies at the federal level that start to reign in some of the most abusive practices of the credit card industry. Below are OSPIRG students meeting with Senator Ron Wyden on campus, and OSPIRG’s National Consumer Program Director, Ed Mierzwinski, testifying before Congress on behalf of Oregon students.