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MarketWatch:
Grameen America, a microfinance organization based on the Grameen lending model, announced it has successfully disbursed more than $1 million in micro-loans to low-income women, many of whom are immigrants, in Queens, New York.
Grameen America is a microfinance organization with a mission to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship. In January 2008, Grameen America launched its first […]
Kalamazoo Gazette:
Tom Raich’s dream about beer has turned into a nice little side business.
Raich, a 53-year-old pharmacist and longtime homebrewer, had a dream one night in 1996 that led to an invention, called the Brew Hauler, which is taking off thanks to the recent resurgence in homebrewing.
Raich had struggled hauling his five-gallon carboy, a large […]
The Dallas Morning News:
Alex Counts considers Dallas his Promised Land.
More individuals here support his crusade to give small loans to really poor women than any other place on earth.
“Here, the story of self-help, entrepreneurship, people working their way out of poverty and taking charge of their lives as economic actors is a best-seller,” the 41-year-old […]
NewsHerald.com:
Miriam Shutes has been ill or disabled most of her 50 years. Her left leg was amputated some years back due to circulation problems and her right leg is horribly swollen due to the same thing.
As a result of taking so many antibiotics for so long, Shutes developed cirrhosis of the liver.
Despite her failing health, […]
Expression:
Not having enough money for a comfortable retirement tops the list of financial concerns among aging Americans, according to a recent Gallup Poll. It even outweighs peoples’ worries about having a serious illness or accident.
With statistics showing that Americans can expect to live 20 or more years after reaching retirement age and our longevity continuing […]
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