Kara McGuire

This is a fairly good overview of personal finance, but in the first few pages of the book the author greatly misinterprets a graph from The Tax Foundation. She claims that almost 80% of people who have Bachelor's degrees earn $200,000/year or more, but the graph actually states that of all people who earn $200,000/year or more, about 80% of them have Bachelor's degrees. Those are two very different statements!

The book is colorful and eye-catching, but the plentiful stock images of teens are pretty ridiculous. The information is (mostly) good and helpful, but I can imagine teens flipping through this and putting it back on the shelf because of the corny photographs.… (más)