Críticas Magazine

These guys don't run a proofreading service. But they do taxes, and four or five errors in 50 words of advertising copy might lead you to wonder if they've fully embraced the attention-to-detail thing that the IRS seems to appreciate on returns. 

Reliable information about personal finance does not grow on trees. If you don’t use the dominant language such information is even harder to find. So the Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library is helping out in an important way this winter by offering a weekly series of Spanish-language money-management workshops. You can read about them here in a story from Stockton’s Cesar Chavez Central Library.

The library paired up with a credit union whose employee, Omar Hurtado, is shown in the article conducting a session. Topics of the ten programs in the weeks to come include checking accounts, auto loans, credit, home ownership, and identity theft.

 It’s no secret that linguistic minorities are vulnerable to scams. The Federal Trade Commission‘s laudable efforts to curtail fraud targeting Spanish speakers include this Spanish-language site called, appropriately, ¡Ojo! (Here it is in English, too.) Ojo means something like “watch out.”
 
Libraries looking to boost their relevance as sources of valuable information can never go wrong by serving up sound practical help to folks about minding their hard-earned cash. Though we'll never be able to pass out wads of lightning-fast dinero to attract crowds to the library, Stockton-San Joaquin is offering something almost as good.