Chocolate Bar

A truly amazing and uplifting story from Kind World from WBUR about a boy with Glycogen Storage Disease Type 1b, his friend and the Chocolate Bar Book. LANTZ: Dylan is 10 years old now. But this story starts when the boys were in first grade. Dylan’s mom Debra Siegel was driving her son home from…

Ways to Work

This blog has repeated reported on microfinance programs in the developing world which give loans to poor individuals.  This model has been extended to work even in the U.S.  Ways to Work provides loans to poor Americans, often to purchase or repair an automobile.  After welfare reform acts in the 1990s, many states required individuals to…