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The Growth of Microfinance Programs in the United States

By Caroline Preston

Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform
by Nancy C. Jurik

Providing loans to help poor people start their own businesses is a popular way to fight poverty in the developing world. Less well known are the more than 300 such programs in the United States that offer training, loans, and other...

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