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Erica Sandberg
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Erica Sandberg is a nationally recognized consumer finance expert. She is the author of Expecting Money: The Essential Financial Plans for New and Growing Families has written countless articles and advice columns, and hosted Making it in San Francisco, a TV show on KRON-4, about how to live well in a notoriously expensive city.
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