Funding College: Finding Grants, Government Loans, and Colleges That Are Free

This Element is an excerpt from America, Welcome to the Poorhouse: What You Must Do to Protect Your Financial Future and the Reform We Need by Jane White, available in print and digital formats.

Here's how to tame monstrous college costs: practical ways to protect your kids' financial future - and your own! College can now sink anyone deep in debt, so your first plan of action should be to protect your kids from having their lives destroyed if they can't make payments and wind up having their credit rating destroyed. Then, take these steps to lower your college costs.