Money Management Skills



Lecture 6: Investing in Education

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of these skills help not only in our work productivity but also in

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college and high school graduates, or engineers versus psychology

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more-skilled students tend to get accepted by more-prestigious

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the more marginal students and also tend to come from a lower

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Planning and Saving for Education

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