To get your week off to a strong start, check out the top new posts in October for the NGPF Blog. We had a great time last week in Dallas with our 22 scholarship winners the Jump$tart National Educator Conference:

• NGPF Jump$tart Scholarship Winners Announced
• What Does The New FICO Score Measure?
• How Do Credit Card Companies Make Money?
• Question of the Day: Who Are The Top 10 Apparel Retailers?
• Looking for Writing Prompts? Here Are a Few For Your Personal Finance Students
• Interactive: What’s the Value of A Graduate Degree?
• What Percentage of Young People Are Being Denied Credit?
• Video: Why the Anxiety About Student Loans?
• How Do Millennials Define Adulthood? 
• Question of the Day: What Is Cross-Selling?

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.