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Personal & Family Financial Planning

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Personal and Family Financial Planning will address many critical personal financial management topics in order to help you learn prudent habits both while in school and throughout your lifetime.

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Dave Ramsey's debt-elimination plan built around seven sequential baby steps: a starter emergency fund, the debt snowball, a full emergency fund, then retirement saving and mortgage payoff. Readers learn a strict, cash-based system for getting out of consumer debt.

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The r/personalfinance community wiki page on budgeting, maintained by the subreddit's moderators. It explains how to track income and expenses, set spending categories and build a first monthly budget, with links to free spreadsheet templates and tools.

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The Dave Ramsey Show

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