Iowa State's Hira offers money saving survival tips in a tight economy

July 17, 2008

Iowa State's Hira offers money saving survival tips in a tight economy

Soaring prices for fuel and food are putting strains on people's pocketbooks. Tahira Hira, professor of personal finance and consumer economics in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, offers simple tips for making a shoestring budget stretch further, in an ISU News Service news release.

Contacts:

Tahira Hira, Human Development and Family Studies, (515) 294-2042, tkhira@iastate.edu

Mike Ferlazzo, News Service, (515) 294-8986, ferlazzo@iastate.edu

Surviving tough economic times begins with understanding where you are spending you money, says Tahira Hira, a professor of personal finance and consumer economics in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at ISU.