Tips offered at budgeting, credit and debt seminar at YSU

YOUNGSTOWN — “Do you want to know how old I was when I said ‘Charge it.’ for the first time?” Mary C. Hurlburt, director of community outreach for Consumer Credit Counseling Services, asked a group of about 25 women. “I was 5!”

Hurlburt, who gives presentations on budgeting and money management for the nonprofit community service agency, joined presenters from various companies and state departments today at a seminar hosted by Ohio Treasurer Richard Cordray’s office at the Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.

Sessions about budgeting, kids and money, saving for retirement, credit and debt, insurance, social security, elder care, home ownership, investments and identity theft were offered.

About 250 women were expected to attend.

“Treasurer Cordray understands that people all over Ohio are being squeezed financially,” said Holly Hollingsworth, director of media relations for Cordray’s office in Columbus. “Our state’s economy is in a tough spot ...”

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