3.19.2008

FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT, COAST TO COAST

Another cool Bloomberg initiative, and this one hits close to home for me, literally (SF is near where I grew up) and figuratively (I taught entrepreneurship to inner city kids for ten years): "Mayor Michael Bloomberg And San Francisco Mayor Newsom Launch The Cities For Financial Empowerment Coalition." Coupled with a nice piece in the Economist about paying the poor to make their kids' doctor appointments and keep them in school, and you can begin to pick up a method in Bloomie's madness: aggressive social programming combined with a fundamental belief in the free market. You can see why I dig the dude.

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