How innovation helped save Detroit
The city government of Detroit, Michigan, with up to billion in debt, filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy ... our grant dollars and reinvigorate a diverse entrepreneurial culture so that an...
Cooperative helps Hmong farmers
They are learning about credit scores, budgets and financial statements, and microloans. "Hmong culture has traditionally been against debt," Pakou said. "There was a fear of reprisal, but now some ar...
Loan Survivors
There’s even a show in which ordinary people who dared to pursue higher education battle one another for the chance to pay off their student debt. Surprise! That last one isn’t just a modern-day take ...
Dough Pushes Transparency, Culture Change Amid Student Debt Crisis
Catalina Kaiyoorawongs knows from experience how dire the student debt crisis has gotten in the United States. She spent years addressing access to loans for fellow low-income and first-generation stu...
Struggling Southern literary magazine pays off debt
Oxford American's debt to the university had reached 0,000 in 2008 after ... The magazine was founded in 1992 and explores Southern culture. The publication's board of directors fired founder Marc ...
New game show 'Paid Off' offers chance to eliminate student loan debt
But a new game show on TruTV offers contestants an altogether more practical — and perhaps somewhat depressing — prize: the chance to get out from under mountains of crippling student loan debt. "Paid ...
How the Winnipeg Folk Festival got out of debt in 1987
But the festival's future was not always secure. After a run of bad weather and low attendance for several years in the early 1980s, the festival was 0,000 in debt and desperate to turns things aro...
Call to review Debt Recovery Programme of beneficiaries
Debt, not a resource Child Poverty Action Group Spokeswoman ... what the government is already talking about, which is a massive culture change to get back to the idea that the MSD is there to help vu...
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