Product DescriptionYOUNG PEOPLE ARE ENTERING THE REAL-WORLD UNPREPARED TO MAKE DECISIONS WITH MONEY- AND DROWNING IN DEBT. In a fast-paced world that thrives on instant gratification, our young people are falling prey to the temptation of credit cards. Basic skills to make good decisions with money are not taught in school and millions of young people every year are finding themselves buried in debt before age 25. “Credit Card Debt: It Can Cost You Your Life” is a book that addresses this explosive problem by teaching young people how to demonstrate positive money management and to avoid the credit trap. This book exposes young people to the dangers of debt by going inside the lives of four people who’ve been there. It further goes on to reveal simple (and critical) ways to make good decisions with money and shows step by step ways to demonstrate positive money management. College graduates everywhere say they wish they’d had this book freshman year. Basic financial literacy is a gift evey child deserves. Money is a decision every person must make regardless of where they went to school or what grades they made. “Credit Card Debt: It Can Cost You Your Life” gives answers needed to understand money and further success in a young person’s life.
I found this book to be factual along with being extremely easy to understand and comprehend. I wish I had read it 10 years ago I know it would have saved me multiple thousand’s of dollars!I recomend this to anyone that carries even just one credit card so you really learn how the credit card companies make their money off of you. This book pays for itself over and over again!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is a concise overview of credit basics and gives excellent advise for managing it properly. A great primer for those just entering the “credit market” or those who are starting the slippery slope of credit mis-management. It is also a good refresher for those who need another dose of advise on how to properly budget. I highly recommend it to high school and college kids who are just starting to get the influx of credit card offers. This book gives them useful insight on handling a tool that often gets abused to their great misfortune. Susan Powell makes good use of teaching by example in her case studies and gives normally dry information in a well thought out, readable manner.
Rating: 5 / 5