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Chambers, for his part, takes a salary for his do-good efforts. But that's a small reason he's in the game. "It's changing people's lives," he says of his loan and counseling service. By making reliable transportation affordable, he helps clients hold a job, which builds their credit...
That's when Chambers discovered his calling. He founded Bonnie CLAC (Car Loans and Counseling), a nonprofit that attempts to negotiate fair car prices for the working poor and offers them low-rate loans. Since launching his firm in Lebanon, N.H., five years ago, Chambers has underwritten $10 million in loans, and his clients have saved an average of $7,000 over the life of their loan, he says...
...down on life-threatening errors in their care of the elderly; and Charles Dey, 75, of Lyme, Conn., who places high school students who have disabilities in paid internships that provide a workplace mentor. Chambers hopes to use any prize money to expand his New England auto-loan operation across the U.S. If more folks can afford to get to work, more will, he reasons. That's making a difference...
...places, without any money, credit cards, or I.D. and with no way to board my plane home some days later. As this dawned on, me paranoia set in. I retraced my steps. Eventually I calmed down, cancelled my credit cards, filed a police report, found friends to loan me money, and got my parents to overnight my passport. I kept telling myself that things weren’t that bad. But not even Monty Python could cheer me up. Just when everything seemed lost, I got a call. “We just got home and there was a message...
...filing could also raise awkward questions for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte because Keyser's wife Margaret Lyons is a senior CIA official on loan in a sensitive post helping set up a new open-source unit of DNI. The prosecutors' filing says Lyons had known for about a year that Keyser had improperly kept classified documents at home. Worse, current and former U.S. government officials tell TIME, an FBI search of the couple's home found CIA documents that Lyons had there without authorization. In a Feb. 22 letter to the judge in Keyser's case, Lyons...